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Alzbeta D. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3364)

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-3364

Overview

Summary: 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.
Author/Creator: D., Alzbeta, 1929-
Published: Prague, Czech Republic : Nadace Film & Sociologie, 1996
Interview Date: January 31, 1996.
Locale: Slovakia
Žilina (Slovakia)
Dlhé nad Cirochou (Slovakia)
Dubnica nad Váhom (Slovakia)
Czechoslovakia
Cite As: Alzbeta D. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3364). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Notes: This testimony is in Romani.

Physical Details

Language: Romani
Copies: 2 copies: Betacam SP dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (1 hr., 11 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Child survivors.
Aid by non-Romanies.
Hlinka guard.
Subjects: Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Romani. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Families. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Romanies--Nazi persecution--Slovakia. Romanies--Slovakia--History--20th century. Žilina (Slovakia) Dlhé nad Cirochou (Slovakia) Dubnica nad Váhom (Slovakia) Czechoslovakia. Oral histories (document genres) D., Alzbeta,--1929- Hlinkova slovenská l̕udová strana. International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.

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/4291355
Record last modified:: 2018-05-30 11:33:00
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