Tibor Engel with his father and brother

This picture was taken in August 1942 in Muranska Lehota. I’m the first on the right in the photo. Standing beside me is my father, Julius Engel, and on the left is my brother, Pavel Spitzer.

My and my brother's childhood was very turbulent. There's a four year age difference between my older brother and I, and in childhood that was a big difference. In a certain sense we lived side by side, but each his own life. We didn't begin to have a normal childhood until after the war, but there was a large age difference there, and so we had different interests. My brother's name is Pavel, and my mother had him from her first marriage. He was born in 1932. We see each other, and the older we are, the more we like each other.