Watch the testimony clips of Judy Lysy and Serena Bayernová, who explain the reason why they did not escape the ghetto.
Serena Bayernova (née Friedman) was born on September 7, 1922 in Kosice, Czechoslovakia. Her father, Benjamin Friedman was a businessman and a rabbi, while her mother, Frida Friedman was a housewife. Serena had five siblings and was raised in an orthodox jewish family. She and her family were deported to Auschwitz in 1944. She survived a death march and several months in Taucha, a subcamp of Buchenwald concentration camp, in Germany. Only she and her brother survived the war. She returned to Kosice and worked as a civil servant and later on as a teacher. She got married in 1950 and had one daughter. The interview was recorded in 1996, in Kosice.