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Paternal Paternal Maternal Maternal grandmoth grandf grandfather grandmother ather er Bertalan Paula Anna Adler Ignac Baumhorn Baumhorn (nee Adler 1867 - 1904 (nee Neudorfer) Berger) ? - 1934 1873 - 1944

Father Mother

Arnold Adler Valeria Adlerova 1895 - 1971 (nee Baumhorn) 1899 - 1979

Siblings Spouse Interviewee Juraj Adler Albert Gazik 1923 - 1989 Alica Gazikova (born Gansel) (nee Adlerova) 1923 - 1995 1928

Children

Eva 1956 Viera (f) 1963

1 The interviewee and his family

Full name Alica Gazikova (changed from Ganselova) (nee Adlerova) (Jewish name: Gitl)

Where and when were you born? Bratislava, 1928

Where else did you live? Pezinok, 1928 – 1942, 1944 - 1952 Modra, 1942 – 1944 Bratislava, 1952 – 1954, 1967 - Zvolen, 1954 - 1967

Your educational level? Economic high school, Bratislava

What sort of work do/did you do? At first I worked at the Ministry of Food Industries in Bratislava. After the wedding I found a job at the Central Slovakia Poultry Company in Zvolen and was there for thirteen years. In 1967 we returned to Bratislava and I began working in the Detva manufacturing co-op. I was there for the entire time, almost until my retirement. When I was already of retirement age I began working in another co-op, Univerzal. Here I also worked in supply.

How religious was your parents’ home? How were you raised? We observed holidays in our family. But what for example my father very much regretted was that the store wasn’t closed on Saturday. Normally, one would, as they say, “fool” God, and that in a manner that the store was for all appearances closed, but things would be sold underneath the gate. And when the persecutions during the time of the Slovak State arrived, he regretted that very much, because one way or another he lost everything anyways. My parents of course attended the synagogue. Father went on Friday evening, Saturday morning and on holidays. But normally during the day my father didn’t cover his head. Jews have a custom that women attend the synagogue only on the high holidays. So my mother went only on those occasions. The Sabbath was never observed much in our family. Only in that beforehand barkhes were baked, and our father, upon 2 returning from the synagogue, would recite the Kiddush. For Saturday we would also prepare chulent, which would be taken across the street to the baker’s, and on Saturday we would pick it up. Otherwise my brother and I attended a public school, where there were classes on Saturday as well. That day we would go to school as usual, but we had an exception, we didn’t have to write and draw.

What is your mother tongue? Slovak

What other languages do you speak? German

Where were you during the Holocaust? In hiding: Modra, Protestant boarding school, 1942 – 1944 In hiding: Pezinok, 1944 – 1945 In hiding: Pezinska Baba, 1945

What did you do after the Holocaust? At first I worked at the Ministry of Food Industries in Bratislava. After the wedding I found a job at the Central Slovakia Poultry Company in Zvolen and was there for thirteen years. In 1967 we returned to Bratislava and I began working in the Detva manufacturing co-op. I was there for the entire time, almost until my retirement. When I was already of retirement age I began working in another co-op, Univerzal. Here I also worked in supply. Finally I became the caretaker of my own grandson, Daniel. I took care of him for two and a quarter years.

3 Siblings

Their names Juraj Adler (m)

Where and when were they born? Bratislava, 14th June 1923

What is their mother tongue? Slovak

Their educational level? Finished high school

Their occupations? My brother found a job in Bratislava with the Gestadtner firm. They concerned themselves with copy machines and technology.

Where do/did they live? Bratislava

Where else did they live? -

Do they have children? Two sons

Where and when did they die? Bratislava, 15th October 1989

4 Spouse Name? Albert Gazik (changed from Gansel)

Where and when was he/she born? Banska Bystrica, 1923

Where else did he/she live? Zvolen, 1954 - 1967 Bratislava, 1967 - 1995

Is he/she Jewish? Yes

What is his/her mother tongue? Slovak

His/her educational level? Finished commerce academy

Occupation? Worked at the headquarters of the Prior department stores in Bratislava. As a retiree he then worked in the administration of the Jewish religious community in Bratislava at 18 Kozia St. For example he took care of kosher meat and its distribution. He issued documents when someone died and so on.

Where and when did he/she die? Bratislava, 1995

5 Tell me anything you know about his/her siblings (Name, date of birth and death, occupation, place of residence, name of wife and children, whether their family is Jewish and whether it is religious). Jozef Gansel (m): Banska Bystrica, ca.1925-6/1944-5 died as a soldier of the Czechoslovak Army in German captivity.

6 Children

Their names? Eva (f) Viera (f)

Were they raised Jewish/do they identify themselves as Jews? Eva: Yes/Yes Viera: Yes/Yes

Where and when were they born? Eva: Bratislava, 1956 Viera: Zvolen, 1963

Where else did they live? Eva: Zvolen, 1956 – 1967 Viera: Bratislava, 1967 -

Their educational level? Eva: Graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of Commenius University, Bratislava Viera: Graduated from University of Economics, Bratislava and Graduated from University of Pittsburgh (USA)

Their occupations? Eva: Doctor Viera: Currently on maternity leave

How many grandchildren do you have? Eva: Dagmar (f), 1982; Daniel (m), 1984 Viera: Valeria (f), 2003

7 Father

His name? Arnold Adler

Where and when was he born? Pezinok, 24th May 1895

Where else did he live? Bratislava, 1952 - 1971

Where and when did he die? Bratislava, 1971

What sort of education did he have? Graduated from commerce academy in Bratislava

What sort of work did he do? My father owned a store, several warehouses and a mill, together with his partner, Mr. Moric Diamant. After the war my parents once again began to do business in the store, together with their partner, Mr. Diamant. It was more or less distribution, for example of flour and sugar. We had warehouse space and so began to supply smaller stores with goods, flour, sugar and so on. They rented vehicles and that’s how the goods were distributed. Later they nationalized it and in its place opened a Mototechna. My father then worked in it.

How religious was he? We observed holidays in our family. But what for example my father very much regretted was that the store wasn’t closed on Saturday. Normally, one would, as they say, “fool” God, and that in a manner that the store was for all appearances closed, but things would be sold underneath the gate. And when the persecutions during the time of the Slovak State arrived, he regretted that very much, that he actually shouldn’t have done this, because one way or another he lost everything

8 anyways. My parents of course attended the synagogue. Father went on Friday evening, Saturday morning and on holidays. But normally during the day my father didn’t cover his head.

What was his mother tongue? German

Army service: which army and what years? Supplied the army with foodstuffs, and thus was exempted from army service.

Tell me about his brothers and sisters. (name, date of birth and death, occupation, place of residence, family, etc.)

Name place and date occupation biographical data biographical data describe how religious

of birth/death and origins of of children they were

spouse

Jozef Adler (m) Died as a No No information No information No information

soldier in WWI information

Eduard Adler (m) Died as a No No information No information No information

soldier in WWI information

Ema Weider ?, ?/1944, Housewife ? Weider Olga Frankl

(nee Adler) (f) Auschwitz lived in Zilina, (nee Weider) (f)

(today Poland) died in the lived in England,

Holocaust has one son Alex,

born ca. 1930

Ilus Weider (f)

died in 1944,

Auschwitz

Terezia Reichenberg ?, ?/ died in the Housewife Bela Reichenberg Jeno Reichenberg

(nee Adler) (f) Holocaust lived in (m)

Sladkovicovo, lived in Israel, wife

died in the Edith, has one son

Holocaust Micki, born in 1944

Grete Klein (nee

Reichenberg) (f)

9 died in the

Holocaust

Vilma Sebestyen ?, ?/ died in the Housewife David Lilly Frankl (nee

(nee Adler) (f) Holocaust Sebestyen: Sebestyen) (f)

Vet, lived in ?, ?/ 1988, Zilina,

Pezinok, husband Stefan

Bratislava, Zilina Frankl –one

Died in the daughter Zuzana

Holocaust Nesvadba (nee

Franklova), lives in

Scotland

Pavel Sebestyen

(m), died in the

Holocaust

Richard Adler (m) ?, ?/ died in the No Malvina Adler Bozsi ? (nee Adler)

Holocaust information (nee Quittova) (f)

died in the lives in Israel and

Holocaust England, son called

Franta

Rudolf Adler (m) Pezinok, ca. No 1st wife: Ella Stepson Tomas

1898/1973, information died in the died in the

Zilina Holocaust Holocaust

2nd wife Erna

Poland, ?/1988-

9, Zilina

Oskar Adler (m) Died in Israel No Ruth Adler None

information (nee ?), died in

Israel

Where was he during the Holocaust? In hiding: Pezinok, 1944 – 1945 In hiding: Pezinska Baba, 1945

If he survived, what did he do after? After the war my parents once again began to do business in the store, together with their partner, Mr. Diamant. It was more or less distribution, for example of flour and sugar. We had warehouse space and so began to supply smaller stores with goods, flour, sugar and so on. They rented vehicles and that’s how the goods were distributed. Later they nationalized it and in its place opened a Mototechna. 10 My father then worked in it.

11 Paternal grandfather

Your paternal grandfather’s name? Ignac Adler

Where and when was he born? No information

Where else did he live? Pezinok, Bratislava

Where and when did he die? Bratislava, 1934

What sort of education did he have? No information

What sort of work did he do? Was a merchant, also rented apartments and commercial spaces.

How religious was he? I almost don’t remember my grandparents at all, I was around 6 when they died. But I’m sure they weren’t hyper-religious. They kept a kosher household and attended the synagogue during the high holidays.

What was his mother tongue? German

12 Army service: which army and what years? No information

Tell me about his brothers and sisters. No information Where was he during the Holocaust? Died before

13 Paternal grandmother

Your paternal grandmother’s name? Anna Adler (nee Berger)

Where and when was she born? No information

Where else did she live? Pezinok, Bratislava

Where and when did she die? Bratislava, 1935

What sort of education did she have? No information

What sort of work did she do? Housewife

How religious was she? I almost don’t remember my grandparents at all, I was around 6 when they died. But I’m sure they weren’t hyper-religious. They kept a kosher household and attended synagogue during the high holidays.

What was her mother tongue? German

14 Tell me about her brothers and sisters. No information

Where was she during the Holocaust? Died before

15 Mother

Her name? Valeria Adlerova (nee Baumhorn)

Where and when was she born? Zilina, 29th June 1899

Where else did she live? Pezinok Bratislava

Where and when did she die? Bratislava, 21st September 1979

What sort of work did she do? Before the war worked as a sales clerk in her husband’s store. After the war she was a housewife.

How religious was she? My mother wasn’t at all religious. There was a large modern Neolog community in Zilina. The one in Pezinok was Orthodox. So my grandmother’s family from Zilina didn’t keep kosher. Inasmuch my mother moved to Pezinok, which had an Orthodox community, she had to adapt. So we kept kosher at home. Jews have a custom that women attend the synagogue only on the high holidays. So my mother went only on those occasions.

What was her mother tongue? Hungarian

Tell me about her brothers and sisters. 16 name place and date of occupation biographical data biographical data describe how religious

birth/death and origins of of children they were

spouse

Alzbeta (Erzsi) Zilina, ca. 1895/ - Single - Wasn´t religious

Baumhorn (f) ca. 1912, Zilina

Pavel Baumhorn Zilina, Owned half of Eva Baumhorn Junta (Viera) (f), Wasn´t religious

(m) 2.10.1902/1944, a carbon (nee Schwarz): Bratislava,

Auschwitz (today dioxide born 6th 1938/1944,

Poland) factory in December 1917, Auschwitz

Bratslava. living in

Bratislava

Where was she during the Holocaust? In hiding: Pezinok, 1944 – 1945 In hiding: Pezinska Baba, 1945

If she survived, what did she do after? Housewife

17 Maternal grandfather

Your maternal grandfather’s name? Bertalan Baumhorn

Where and when was he born? Zilina, 26th October 1867

Where else did he live? -

Where and when did he die? Zilina, 22nd October 1904

What sort of education did he have? No information

What sort of work did he do? Came from a well-known family of bakers in Zilina.

How religious was he? No information

What was his mother tongue? No information

Army service: which army and what years? No information

18 Tell me about his brothers and sisters. He had a few siblings, who lived in Zilina.

Where was he during the Holocaust? Died before

19 Maternal grandmother

Your maternal grandmother’s name? Paula Baumhorn (nee Neudorfer)

Where and when was she born? Kezmarok, 11th June 1873

Where else did she live? Zilina Bratislava, 1934 - 1944

Where and when did she die? Auschwitz (today Poland), 1944

What sort of work did she do? My grandmother remained a widow with three children. Because she didn’t have her own house, she had to sell her husband’s store. She put the money in the bank and lived off the interest.

How religious was she? Zilina had a large contemporary modern Neolog community. So my grandmother’s family from Zilina didn’t keep kosher.

What was her mother tongue? Probably Hungarian

20 Tell me about her brothers and sisters. No information

Where was she during the Holocaust? Concentration camp: Auschwitz (today Poland), 1944. Died there