“And that is Holocaust… Helpless nation, peaceful nation was being robbed and in case people would request their properties back, they were killed, and their inheritors were killed as well – just to make sure.”
Big Yellow Star...
“We had to wear that big yellow star that was about 4 inches in diameter. Then there were so-called “people with exceptions” who were allowed to wear a smaller 2-inch star edged in blue. These were the Jews important for the national economy, for example, pharmacists, because almost all pharmacists in Slovakia were Jews.”
- Tibor Spitz was born in 1929 in Dolný Kubín
- his father was a cantor in Jewish religious community and his mother worked as a teacher
- they did not leave to Poland with first transports in 1942 because his father buried Jews from all over Orava territory and Tibor with his brother helped him
- the majority of Tibor's closest relatives was deported into the concentration camp and killed by Germans
- after the Slovak National Uprising began in 1944, because of the threat of transports they hid in a forest bunker and survived there whole 7 months
- on April 4, the villagers who knew about their bunker came to announce them the liberation of Dolný Kubín
- because of the Aryanization of their whole property, they were forced to start from the very beginning
- after the war, Tibor Spitz graduated in university and became an expert in the glass industry
- in 1968 he emigrated through Cuba into the USA where he lives until today