The writer Denisa Fulmek was about ten years old when she knew that she was the granddaughter of the Franciscan monk and exposed poet Rudolf Dilong, who had saved her grandmother Valerie Reisz and mother Dagmar from deportation.
During the Aryanization, the family lost the inn, where they lived and worked. An exemption was also arranged for the grandmother’s two brothers, but their sister-in-law and her young son lost their lives in a concentration camp.
Dilong had to emigrate after the war. He became involved in the exile group, the Slovak Liberation Committee, around Tiso’s ex-minister Ďurčanský, which sought to re-establish an independent Slovak Republic. His gilrfriend was persecuated by the socialist regime who remained in Slovakia.
She, as his companion with a child, experienced further persecution in post-war Czechoslovakia.
In Denisa´s book Konvália, she recalls the life of her grandmother, with whom she and her family stayed in her early childhood.
After the war, her grandfather had to emigrate. Denisa therefore considered her grandfather to be Jozef Krivda, whom her grandmother married after Dilong’s departure.
The full story of the witness can be found in the online archive Memory of Nations.