Alzbeta D. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3364)

Videotape testimony of Alzbeta D., a Romani, who was born in Dlhé nad Cirochou, Czechoslovakia in 1929, one of nine children. She recounts her father was a blacksmith; cordial relations with Jews; deportation of all the Romanies in town to Dubnica nad Váhom; harsh conditions; a guard who had known her relatives warning her not to reveal when they were sick since the sick were killed; warning everyone else; shootings and beatings by Hlinka guards; punishment of a man in February who had to strip and jump into a cesspool (he died); liberation by Soviet troops in winter; fleeing through the woods with her family group of over fifty; encounters with Germans who killed several of them; some children starving to death; Red Cross assistance in Žilina; arriving home in July; finding their house vandalized; her father's employment as a bricklayer by the communists; marriage to a man she had met in Dubnica nad Váhom; and the birth of six children. Mrs. D. notes all the Jews in her village were deported and the achievements of her sons.