David Sivor

“It was time, when we were already afraid. In 1941 the deportations began and in 1942 I was in Liptovský Mikuláš with my mom, when our good friend, a police procurator in Bratislava, telephoned to my mom. He lived next to our flat on Škovránková Street. He called my mom to run away, since we were on the list to be transported on the next day. And yet that day we left Mikuláš and returned to Bratislava. The pity was that my uncle and my cousin didn´t want to leave the hotel. They stayed there, Germans took them, deported to Sobibor, and they never returned after the war.”

“On my 10th birthday in July 1944, we were already in hiding, but my parents bought me a Swiss watch Doxa. This! This is the watch that I got. It is working until now. On a day, when my mom went to work with fake papers, her watch was broken. I told her to take my watch. She took it to the hospital and didn´t return it as she went from there directly to – Patrónka and Theresienstadt, also with my watch. After the war on May 8, 1945, the Theresienstadt was liberated. She came back home around May 20 and she returned me my watch. So this watch went through a very long and interesting journey. It is a very important keepsake for me.”