Tomas (Tom) Venetianer
Author | Sao Paulo, Brazil |
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I was born in Czechoslovakia, before WW2. In late 1938 my hometown was occupied by Hungary.
Given that deportations in Hungary only began in spring 1944, temporarily my parents and I were spared annihilation, contrary to what happened in 1942 to the remainder of my relatives who lived in the newly-established state of Slovakia. Altog.... more
I was born in Czechoslovakia, before WW2. In late 1938 my hometown was occupied by Hungary.
Given that deportations in Hungary only began in spring 1944, temporarily my parents and I were spared annihilation, contrary to what happened in 1942 to the remainder of my relatives who lived in the newly-established state of Slovakia. Altogether, I lost two-thirds of my close family, murdered in the Nazi extermination camps in Eastern Poland.
When, in March 1944, the German Army invaded Hungary we escaped to Slovakia, hiding in the Carpathian Mountains. There, when the Slovak National Uprising broke out, we were captured by the Gestapo. My mother and I were deported to the Terezín concentration camp; my father was taken to a German concentration camp near Berlin.
Miraculously my parents and I survived.
About this book: Tom's last book (in English) is a two-volume illustrated historical chronicle about the Holocaust in Czechoslovakia and in the Slovak puppet state of Father Jozef Tiso. Tom is a praised writer in Brazil with seven books published. This is his first essay in historical account.
