Truda Goldbergerova with Hashomer Hatzair group

This is my cousin Truda Goldbergerova (first from left) with people from the Hashomer Hatzair group in Topolcany. This could have been in 1941.

Shosha Schweitova is next to Truda, she was married to Oto Gubic and lives in Karlovy Vary. Then there's Hanka Salzerova, who perished. Then Elsa Rosenthalova, who lives in Israel, she survived three years of Auschwitz. In the second row from the left: Jakub Schönfeld, he was a histadrutnik at that time, next to him is Miki Kreiner. After Miki Krainer left above is Laco Kreiner, his older brother, next to him is a certain Weiss, I don't know what happened to him. Then this dark boy, I don't recall his name, he came from Subcarpathian Ruthenia and worked in Topolcany at a baker's, he was selling ice-cream. Underneath him is Bubi Friedberg, who perished in Auschwitz and next to him on the right is Dulo Wiesner, who perished, too.

My mother's oldest brother was Viktor Goldberger. He married Aranka, née Rosenthal. They lived in Prievidza. Viktor owned a large textile store in the center of town. In 1922 they had a daughter, Truda. Girls of that age were deported on the first transport in March 1942. Her father wanted to buy her out, to bribe the officers in charge, but she said that she was going to go with her girlfriends. Her parents were put into the labor camp in Novaky. There, they applied for the Yom Kippur transport, the last transport before the temporary end of the deportations, because they wanted to go be with their daughter. Their daughter was no longer alive at that time, and they also died. Such terrible tragedies!