[T1S1] Respondent provides information on 10 siblings; father owned property, family observant, started Jewish education at age 3; lived in small town, Chudlov, Czechoslovakia, raised in middle class family. Respondent discusses early schooling, then business school: 1937. Respondent discusses summer vacations spent studying Talmud, notes safety of town, describes garden at home, notes large difference in age from oldest sibling to Respondent. Respondent provides names of siblings, comments on 1 brother inducted in Austrian-Hungarian Army. Respondent explains after Munich pact, 1938, city where he lived taken by Hungary; Slovakia became independent. Respondent notes parents lost property and other businesses. Respondent provides names of mother and father: Sima (Pollack) and Herman Lebovic, both perished in Holocaust, 1944.
Contributor
University of Pittsburgh (depositor)
Identifier
pitt:ais196440.279_t1s1
Relation
ais196440.279
"Light, Ernest - February 9, 1998" Metadata
Metadata Details
Title
Light, Ernest - February 9, 1998
Creator
National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), Pittsburgh Section
Description
Respondent Holocaust survivor, born 1920.
Contributor
Light, Ernest (interviewee), Braun, Howard;Karelitz, Bess (interviewer), University of Pittsburgh (depositor)
Date
1998-02-09
Type
oral histories (literary genre), Sound
Identifier
pitt:ais196440.279
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