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Olga Adler - July 26, 1982

Holocaust Interview. This is Olga Adler.

Uh, Mrs. Adler, I do have a questionnaire here...

Yeah.

that I can ask you questions on

Yeah, that's better.

Yeah, especially because of your, uh... you were in hiding or similar to hiding. You weren't in concentration camp. Uh, we can do it two ways. The way I'd like to start with is uh, I'd like you to start by recounting all of your memories from before, from before the time that it happened, from the first time where trouble started to happen and go through and try to remember as much of what happened as possible. And if, if we need any help, any spaces to fill in, I can ask, ask you some questions. Generally it works better if you get a chance to talk on your own. Basically the only thing I would like to ask you to do is to start back from as early as you remember when trouble started to happen...

Mhm.

and, as a matter of fact, a little before that, the life before. How was life before the war happened? Tell me a little about then. And go as, as in detailed as you can and I know you said you have a problem uh, remembering dates. But, uh...

I, probably I'm...

Okay, maybe...

I have it, you know.

Yeah.

No, I, I don't remember because I don't want to remember...

Oh, okay.

I just never think abut them and I just...

Yeah. Okay, well all I would like you to do is to try to remember as much as possible and whenever possible whatever details you remember like names and dates, please try to remember, recall those. Okay? And uh, now please start for me um, the earliest you remember, a little bit about your life before the war and then...

Well, before the war, we were... I had lovely parents and we had, I had a brother and we were two girls. And I went to high school and my brother graduated from gymnasium, you know, that high school.

Yes.

You have some European background, something. You know about Europe.

Oh yeah.

And my sister went to the University of Presburg. And, uh...

In what city, state did you live?

In Beregszász, in Czechoslovakia. And we had a lovely childhood and it was a very, very nice and democratic country so there was no problems, any anti-Semitic problems or anything.