“My parents, two brothers and my sister became the victims of Hitler. I got married and that’s what has saved me. My husband was a dentist and back then they were needed. That was my fortune – we got married and thus I survived the war.”
“In 1942 all the boys and girls that were not married were taken to Auschwitz. From Prešov to Auschwitz at every train station the train stopped and loaded those boys and girls. My brothers and my sister were taken too, as well as my mom and grandma. My grandma even died in the train on the way to Auschwitz. That’s what my poor mom had to go through. And at some train station, where the train stopped, my deceased grandma was thrown out of the window.”
“My husband had on his star a sign of HDŽ (standing for economically important Jew). That’s why I could’ve lived too. Otherwise, I would have died. Well, they’d have taken me away. What a tragedy of life!”
Elvíra Weiszová was born on August 4, 1915 in the village of Moravce, Krupina district. At first she attended Hungarian grammar school in Šahy, later she continued at the medical school in Revúca, where she studied to become a dental technician. She has a Jewish origin and she survived the war thanks to her marriage with Ľudovít Schwarz, who as a dentist had an exception and was labeled as „economically important Jew“. All the members of her family died during the holocaust. Yet during the war she and her husband left to Čierny Balog, where they lived and worked together for app. 20 years. After the return to Bratislava, Elvíra‘s husband died. She got employed here as a dental technician and married for the second time. She doesn‘t have any children and that‘s why she stayed alone after the death of her second husband. Nowadays she lives in Ohel David senior house.
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