5: Life in Kassa with the Zinger family Oscar Sladek In Kassa, the Zinger family warmly embrace Oscar and, for a time, he is happy to be with them even though he misses his parents. Life in Hungary for Jews in 1943 is starkly different from life in Slovakia. Kassa...
4: Smuggled to Hungary Oscar Sladek Life in Prešov grows more dangerous for Oscar and his family. By 1943, the number of friends willing to help the Štaubs to hide is dwindling—the risk is too great. Simultaneously, there is growing opposition to deportations,...
3: Arrests across Slovakia Oscar Sladek As 1942 progresses, the city of Prešov gradually begins to look very different. Many stores and apartments have forcibly changed hands, the Hlinka Guards are a common presence on the streets and, month after month, fewer and...
2: Oscar in the new Slovak Republic Oscar Sladek Members of the Hlinka guard and a squad of ethnic Germans (date uncertain) United States Holocaust Memorial Museum When Oscar is in second grade, he and his Jewish classmates, along with all the Jews in Slovakia, are...
1. An only child in Prešov Oscar Sladek Oscar Sladek’s parents, Sarlota and Bedrich Štaub, grew up in different cities in the eastern Slovakian region of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Bedrich, called Frici, was from Prešov, and Sarlota, called Irene, from Sobrance. The...
