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Perla Lobl (née Lezer) was born on October 8th, 1926, in Kosice, Czechoslovakia, in a hasidic Jewish family. His father, Aaron Lezer led the family business, a men’s clothing store, while her mother, Leah Herbstman was a housewife. She had eight siblings. She attended an Orthodox elementary then a public secondary school in Kosice. As the second oldest sister, she had responsibilities in the house and in the family business as well. In 1938, the first Anti-Jewish Laws were passed in Hungary, which took affect in Kosice when at the same time the region was reannexed to Hungary. These changes gradually worsened the circumstances of her family. She received false papers through family contacts and moved to Budapest. Later she went back to Kosice, but before the deportations, she went into hiding. Her parents and three of her siblings survived the Holocaust, while the other five siblings were killed in Auschwitz. After the war, she returned to Kosice and got married. In 1947 they emigrated to the United States, and later they moved to Israel. Her interview was recorded in 1997, in Jerusalem, Israel.