Perla Schönova and Vladimir Schön

This photo was taken in a studio in Michalovce in the 1930s and shows the children of my sister Karolina. The little girl was named Perla and the boy Vladko, short for Vladimir. My second sister was named Karolina. She was exactly the same type of person as my wife, assertive and self-confident. A very pretty girl she was. She married another Schön, Eugen, in Stretava. Eugen had a store in Stretava, and they did fairly well. Stretava was the second to next village from Inacovce, one went there through either Senne or Palin. All the women in the family, beginning with my mother, rest her soul, worshipped me, as I was the only boy. They spoiled me. Karolinka was doing well, and so during my visits she would ?fatten me up.? Once she made me an omelet out of 12 eggs. I ate it all, and then felt horribly ill. My mother told her that she'd never let me go see her again. They had a better house, and larger as well, also from unfired bricks. They had two children. The daughter was named Gyöngyi, or Pearl, the son Vladko. The whole family was dragged off to a concentration camp, where they died. To this day I've got the postcard that they sent me from the Miedzyrzec camp. .