- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Zoltan L., who was born in Liptovský Mikuláš, Czechoslovakia in 1927. He recalls cordial relations with non-Jews; his mother's singing talent; attending a Jewish school, then gymnasium; his mother singing at Jewish and non-Jewish weddings; he and his brother learning songs from her; anti-Jewish measures, including expulsion from gymnasium, following Slovak independence; attending a Jewish gymnasium; his father attacking a man who painted antisemitic slogans on his bakery; their arrest by Hlinka guard and transport to Košice; returning home; his bar mitzvah; his father's deportation (he never saw him again); joining the unsuccessful Slovak uprising in August 1944; being hidden with his mother by non-Jews in Kvačany; their arrest in December; imprisonment in Liptovský Mikuláš, then Ružomberok; transport with his aunt and mother to Sered; slave labor; separation from his family when he was selected for transfer to Sachsenhausen by Kommandant Alois Brunner; privileged treatment resulting from singing for camp officials; a death march in April 1945; abandonment by the guards in Schwerin; liberation by United States troops; contact with his brother through the Red Cross; returning home via Lübeck and Plzeň; reunion with his brother; neighbors returning their belongings; conservatory training; and his singing career. Mr. L. notes learning his mother and aunt perished in Ravensbrück, and performing and recording Jewish songs.
- Author/Creator
- L., Zoltan, 1927-
- Published
- Bratislava, Slovakia : Milan Šimečka Foundation, 1995
- Interview Date
- February 8, 1995.
- Locale
- Slovakia
Czechoslovakia
Liptovský Mikuláš (Slovakia)
Košice (Slovakia)
Kvačany (Slovakia)
Ružomberok (Slovakia)
Schwerin (Germany)
Plzeň (Czech Republic)
Lübeck (Germany)
- Cite As
- Zoltan L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3656). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Salner, Peter, interviewer.
Riečanská, Eva, interviewer.
- Notes
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This testimony is in Slovak.
