- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Jan S., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1923, one of two children. He recounts his parents' assimilated lifestyle; his bar mitzvah to please his grandfather; participating with his sister in an anti-fascist youth group; moving with his family to Piešt̕any in 1938; joining the resistance; printing pamphlets and operating an illegal transmitter for the underground; arrest and imprisonment; solitary confinement for one year; transfer to Nováky; assignment to a privileged position as an electrician; joining the underground; obtaining a radio and weapons; convincing guards to join the partisans; a revolt in Nováky; escaping with others; joining the Slovak uprising; fighting in Handlová, Zemianske Kostoľany, Partizánske, Banská Bystrica and other places; being wounded twice; translating for British soldiers; a physician sending him to officer school in Poprad (he was too ill to fight); learning his mother and sister had survived in hiding and his father had been killed; working as a journalist; dismissal in 1952 for criticizing the regime and being Jewish; rehabilitation; and working for Alexander Dubček. Mr. S. notes the deportations and deaths of almost all his large, extended family.
- Author/Creator
- S., Jan, 1923-
- Published
- Bratislava, Slovakia : Milan Šimečka Foundation, 1995
- Interview Date
- June 29, 1995.
- Locale
- Slovakia
Czechoslovakia
Bratislava (Slovakia)
Piešt̕any (Slovakia)
Zemianske Kostol̕any (Slovakia)
Handlová (Slovakia)
Partizánske (Slovakia)
Banská Bystrica (Slovakia)
Poprad (Slovakia)
- Cite As
- Jan S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3688 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Salner, Peter, interviewer.
Antalová, Ingrid, interviewer.
- Notes
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This testimony is in Slovak.
