Kornelia Gittel Reich

Kornel was picked up the Slovak Hlinka Guards in Bratislava during 1944. As they were being marched through a marketplace towards the train station for deportation, she managed to slip into the crowd of peasants selling various produce. Her husband did not attempt to escape. He perished. Kornel spent the rest of the war in hiding with her niece Ilonka, and Ilonka's husband, Ludovit Sturc. Kornel's two daughters, Manci and Klari, were captured and deported to a concentration camp, but were fortunate to survive. Manci married Rudolf Ungar, also a concentration camp survivor, in the summer of 1945. Theirs was the first Jewish wedding in Slovakia after the war.