Gizela Bachnerova ID card in the Novaky labour camp

This is a photo of my brother Dezider's wife, Gizela. This photograph is on a document with which we had to prove our identity in the Novaky labor camp. In the lower part of the document, in the right corner, is the signature of the camp commander - Mr. Polhora. My oldest brother was named Dezider and was born in 1903 in the town of Dezerice. He apprenticed as and became a master tinsmith. He had a tinsmithery workshop in Topolcany. During World War II he was deported to a labor camp in Novaky, where he was head of a tinsmithery workshop. Unfortunately he didn't survive the war. He was murdered along with this wife Gizela and three children, Judita, Ruzena and son Jozef in Kremnicka.

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