- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Herta V., who was born in 1930. She recalls attending Jewish boarding school in Trnava; antisemitic violence by Slovak guardsmen; returning home; arrest with her brother and parents; their incarcerations in Sered; being released due to her father's connections; their move to Bratislava to live as non-Jews under false names; denunciation and arrest; incarceration in Sered;̕ organized theater and music groups; deportation to Birkenau; refusing to accompany her younger cousin through the selection; separation from her father, aunt, and cousins (she never saw them again); remaining with her mother; tortuous appells, crowding, and arduous slave labor; hiding with her mother in the latrines to avoid work; separation from her mother (she never saw her again); transfer to Vrchlabi; slave labor making parts for V1 and V2 rockets; sadistic guards; liberation by Czech partisans; returning to Bratislava; and reunion with her brother. Mrs. V. discusses a recent visit to Birkenau.
- Author/Creator
- V., Herta, 1930-
- Published
- Bratislava, Slovakia : Milan Šimečka Foundation, 1995
- Interview Date
- April 13, 1995.
- Locale
- Trnava (Slovakia)
Bratislava (Slovakia)
- Cite As
- Herta V. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3674). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Riečanská, Eva, interviewer.
Salner, Peter, interviewer.
- Notes
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This testimony is in Slovak.
