Rene Slotkin
Nació: 1937, en Teplice Sanov, Checoslovaquia
Describe el antisemitismo en una escuela de Kosice durante la posguerra [Entrevista: 1995]
I started to go to school in Kosice, and he left me with his, uh, sister, Edith Mann, and her husband, Joseph Mann. And they had a boy, Otto, and a girl, Bibi? Bibi. And we lived very close to the school, and, uh, I knew I was Jewish then because first of all, they were Jewish and, uh, I was called a Jew in the school. Every day when I, when, when school got out--there was one other Jew in the entire school. His name was Sobel. I'll never forget the name, Sobel. I don't know his first name, but, uh, the boys are waiting for us to beat us and to stone us, every single day. It was a hassle to get out of school. I don't know why it wasn't a problem going to school, but leaving school every day was, was a horror show.
I started to go to school in Kosice, and he left me with his, uh, sister, Edith Mann, and her husband, Joseph Mann. And they had a boy, Otto, and a girl, Bibi? Bibi. And we lived very close to the school, and, uh, I knew I was Jewish then because first of all, they were Jewish and, uh, I was called a Jew in the school. Every day when I, when, when school got out--there was one other Jew in the entire school. His name was Sobel. I'll never forget the name, Sobel. I don't know his first name, but, uh, the boys are waiting for us to beat us and to stone us, every single day. It was a hassle to get out of school. I don't know why it wasn't a problem going to school, but leaving school every day was, was a horror show.
Rene y su hermana melliza Irene nacieron Rene y Renate Guttman. La familia se mudó a Praga poco después del nacimiento de los mellizos, donde vivían cuando los alemanes ocuparon Bohemia y Moravia en marzo de 1939. Pocos meses después, soldados alemanes arrestaron a su padre. Décadas después, Irene y Rene se enteraron que fue muerto en el campo de Auschwitz en diciembre de 1941. Rene, Irene, y su madre fueron deportados al ghetto de Theresienstadt, y después a Auschwitz. Ahí, los mellizos fueron separados y sujetos a experimentos médicos. Irene y Rene estuvieron separados por mucho tiempo después de su liberación de Auschwitz. Después de la guerra Rene se quedó con la familia de un doctor en Kosice, Checoslovaquia, antes de mudarse a los Estados Unidos donde se reunió con su hermana, Irene.
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