Earlier this year, on Holocaust Memorial Day 2023, I gave a lecture on the experiences of four Jewish Slovak survivors from the AJR Refugee Voices Archive, one of them my mother. This was the first time I publicly spoke about her history. A few days before the event I received an e-mail from Vivian Hassan- Lampert, saying that her mother Erika Hassan, who had survived the war in my mother's hometown Piestany, would like to get in touch with Dr Gertrud Friedmann, as she recogn

In May 2020 my mother, Dr Gertrud Friedmann, died. Born in Slovakia, she survived the Holocaust in hiding with her family. You can read a...