LEADER 05185cpd a2200673 a 4500001 4292126 005 20180604133154.0 008 990512s1995 ctu slo d 035 (OCoLC)ocn702234267 035 (CStRLIN)CTYV99-A120 035 4292126 035 HVT-3676 035 |9FLW6332YL 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)702156746 090 |bHVT-3676 100 1 V., Ruzena. 245 10 Ruzena V. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3676) |h[videorecording] / |cinterviewed by Peter Salner and Ingrid Králová, |fMay 5, 1995. 260 Bratislava, Slovakia : |bMilan Šimečka Foundation, |c1995. 300 1 videorecording (2 hr., 15 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Ruzena V., who was raised in Sečovce, Czechoslovakia, one of six children. She recounts a Hlinka Guard advising her father to hide his daughters; not heeding him in order to remain together; relocation to Poprad; deportation to Auschwitz with two sisters; slave labor; obtaining a privileged position in the political department; sharing extra food with her sisters; transfer with them to Birkenau; their selection for gassing in January 1943; her privileged position in the laundry; brief transfer to the Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Lager); its liquidation; assignment to the new laundry; assisting new arrivals; observing prisoners who were used for medical experiments; the death march to Ravensbrück in January 1945; transport to Neustadt-Glewe; slave labor in an airplane factory; sabotaging the parts; assistance from German workers; liberation by Soviet troops in May; a difficult journey to Sečovce; learning one sibling had survived; moving to Trebišov to live with a cousin, then to Bratislava; and marriage in 1960. Mrs. V. discusses many details of camp life; loss of hope and constant fear in the camps; sharing everything with her friends, including poison (they did not want to be gassed); being sterilized; the veteran status of Slovak women in Auschwitz/Birkenau because they were the first female prisoners; present fears resulting from her experiences; and a recent visit to Auschwitz. 546 This testimony is in Slovak. 562 |e3 copies: |bBetacam SP dub; |b1/2 in. VHS dub; |band 1/2 in. VHS with time coding. 524 Ruzena V. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3676). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 600 10 V., Ruzena. 610 20 Hlinkova slovenská l̕udová strana. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84188467 610 20 Auschwitz (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96112360 610 20 Birkenau (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96068007 610 20 Ravensbrück (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96068008 610 20 Neustadt-Glewe (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no98107966 650 0 Holocaust survivors. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061527 650 0 Video tapes. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143214 650 0 Women. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85147274 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |vPersonal narratives. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061518 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |vPersonal narratives, Jewish. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148465 650 0 Sisters. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85123008 650 0 Forced labor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453 650 0 Death marches. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95006384 650 0 Sabotage. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85116210 650 0 Concentration camps |xPsychological aspects. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85029590 650 0 Human experimentation in medicine. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85062870 651 0 Secǒvce (Slovakia) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00050489 651 0 Czechoslovakia. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81032269 651 0 Poprad (Slovakia) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85137124 651 0 Trebišov (Slovakia) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93012276 651 0 Bratislava (Slovakia) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80093362 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 690 4 Mutual aid. 690 4 Aid by non-Jews. 690 4 Postwar experiences. 690 4 Politische Abteilung (Auschwitz) 691 4 Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Lager) 693 24 Hlinka Guard. 700 1 Salner, Peter, |d1951- |einterviewer. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no95039645 700 1 Králová, Ingrid, |einterviewer. 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies |bYale University Library |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b4671391 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.3676) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/6688g8fm2b 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/