Jews in wartime Slovakia
One of my closest friends – a Jewish man from Slovakia – is involved in a project describing the experience of another Jewish Slovak man discovering how his father died in the Second World War and the implications of this story for the present time. My friend’s translation agency translated the project from Slovak to English and his family knew the author’s family.
Fedor Gal was born in the concentration camp at Terezin north of Prague which I once visited with another dear friend, a Czech Jew whose mother had been imprisoned there. By the time of his birth, his father had been shot on a death march from Sachsenhausen to Schwerin. It is a moving story that you can learn about here.