- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Lenke Z., who was born in Sevluš, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Vynohradiv, Ukraine) in 1914. She recounts being raised by an aunt after her parents' death; attending a Jewish gymnasium in Mukacheve; marriage in 1937; moving to Nitra; her son's birth; antisemitic laws after the establishment of independent Slovakia; "Aryanization" of their business; an aborted attempt to smuggle themselves from Humenné to Hungary in 1943; returning to Nitra; arranging to hide with non-Jewish friends during a round-up in October 1944; her husband's nervous breakdown; hiding with her son in Jarok; receiving warnings of German raids from a priest; living in a peasant's barn until January 1945; leaving when it became too dangerous; going from farm to farm; hiding in the forests for six weeks; Christian peasants bringing them food; liberation in April; returning to Nitra; learning most Jews had perished, including her husband; living in Sejdorf (Okrouhlička); devastation upon returning to her childhood home and realizing her entire family had perished; marriage; living in Bratislava; and pervasive antisemitism. Mrs. Z. discusses her son's suicide at age forty-two (his father's age when he was killed) and enjoying visits to the United States due to the open appreciation of Jewish culture.
- Author/Creator
- Z., Lenke, 1914-
- Published
- Peabody Mass. : Holocaust Center of the Jewish Federation of the North Shore, 1988
- Interview Date
- May 18, 1988.
- Locale
- Vynohradiv (Ukraine)
Austria
Mukacheve (Ukraine)
Nitra (Slovakia)
Humenné (Slovakia)
Jarok (Slovakia)
Okrouhlička (Czech Republic)
- Cite As
- Lenke Z. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2306). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Zora, Stephen, interviewer.
- Notes
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This testimony is in Slovak.
