- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Jolana M., who was born in Podwilk, Poland, one of six children. She recalls graduating from Gymnasium in Zakopane in 1932; not attending medical school due to a Jewish quota; attending nursing school in Warsaw; working at a Jewish hospital; joining Hashomer Hatzair; German invasion; fleeing to Soviet-occupied Białystok; returning to Warsaw; posing as a Catholic to travel home, then to Bratislava; working in the Jewish hospital; deportation of the hospital staff to Žilina; selection to work in an old-age home in Nové Mesto nad Váhom; her parents' arrival at the home; her mother's death in 1944; escaping, at her father's urging (he refused to join her and she never saw him again); traveling to Bratislava using false papers; working as a domestic, then for a tailor; liberation by Soviet troops; and providing medical assistance to Jewish refugees in Petržalka. Mrs. M. recalls learning that the tailor knew she was Jewish; details of her siblings deaths during the Holocaust; and not externalizing her emotions due to her war experiences.
- Author/Creator
- M., Jolana, ca. 1913-
- Published
- Bratislava, Slovakia : Milan Šimečka Foundation, 1995
- Interview Date
- August 30, 1995.
- Locale
- Podwilk (Poland)
Poland
Zakopane (Poland)
Warsaw (Poland)
Białystok (Poland)
Bratislava (Slovakia)
Nové Mesto nad Váhom (Slovakia)
Petržalka (Bratislava, Slovakia)
- Cite As
- Jolana M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3692). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Salner, Peter, interviewer.
Salnerová, Eva, interviewer.
- Notes
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This testimony is in Slovak.
