Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Hilda E., who was born in Dolný Kubín, Czechoslovakia in 1928. She recalls cordial relations with non-Jews; moving to Topoĺčany; attending a Jewish school; deportation to Žilina; receiving food from her brother who was married to a non-Jew; transfer to Nováky; forced labor as a seamstress; educational, cultural, religious life, and musical performances in Nováky; contacts with local partisans through the camp underground; liberation by a partisan rebellion; working as a medical aide with the partisans; joining her mother in Banská Bystrica; fleeing German bombardment; separation from her mother; hiding with non-Jews using false documents; joining her brother in Žilina; leaving due to fear of exposure; living as a Christian with non-Jews in villages; working in Žilina to earn money to assist the family with whom she lived; assisting hidden Jews; liberation; reunion with her brother; learning her mother had perished at Bergen-Belsen; attending school in Bratislava; and emigration to Israel. Mrs. E. notes being denied permission to visit Czechoslovakia.
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1994
- Interview Date
- February 22, 1994.
- Locale
- Slovakia
Czechoslovakia
Dolný Kubín (Slovakia)
Topol̕čany (Slovakia)
Banská Bystrica (Slovakia)
Žilina (Slovakia) - Cite As
- Hilda E. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2899). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
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This testimony is in Hebrew.
Physical Details
- Language
- Hebrew
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (2 hr., 25 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Child survivors.
Partisans.
Hiding.
Concentration camps Underground movements.
Aid by non-Jews.
False papers.
Postwar experiences. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Families. Forced labor. Concentration camp inmates--Religious life. Concentration camps--Songs and music. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Slovakia. World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance. Czechoslovakia. Dolný Kubín (Slovakia) Topol̕čany (Slovakia) Banská Bystrica (Slovakia) Žilina (Slovakia) Oral histories (document genres) E., Hilda,--1928- Nováky (Concentration camp) Žilina (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
-
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4289130
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-29 11:58:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4289130
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