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The
deportation of Slovakian Jews to the Lublin district and to
Auschwitz began in late March 1942. This transport was undertaken
with cooperation and substantive assistance from the Slovakians, who
prepared the transport trains and arrested Jews for deportation.
Alfred
Wetzler, subsequently famous as one of the four young men who
escaped from Auschwitz in the spring of 1944, testified about the
circumstances of his removal from his parents’ home:
"Guardsmen arrested the Jews and took everyone they found,
including people aged sixty and over. When the guardsmen came to
take my parents, I asked them to leave my parents alone and let me
go in their stead." |
