LEADER 06585cpd a2200757 a 4500001 4298752 005 20180604132850.0 008 980731s1998 ctu slo d 035 HVT-3702 035 4298752 035 |9FLX3057YL 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)1005108125 090 |bHVT-3702 100 1 F., Jan, |d1930- 245 10 Jan F. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3702) |h[videorecording] / |cinterviewed by Peter Salner and Ingrid Antalová, |fDecember 27, 1998. 260 Bratislava, Slovakia : |bMilan Šimečka Foundation, |c1998. 300 1 videorecording (2 hr., 29 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Jan F., who was born in Trnava, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1930, an only child. He recalls his family's assimilated lifestyle; attending public school in Piešt̕any; passing the admissions exams for gymnasium, but finding Jews were barred; attending a Jewish school; deportation of his mother's family in 1942 by the Hlinka guard; moving to Bratislava; hiding with non-Jews; composing crossword puzzles, for which he was paid; his father arranging for their conversion to evangelical Christianity in August; attending an evangelic school; hiding during the Slovak uprising in 1944; his father leaving their hiding place and not returning (he never saw him again); round-up with his mother in October; deportation to Sered; his mother's deportation (he never saw her again); deportation to Sachsenhausen in November, to Buchenwald, then to Berga ten days later; his split-second decision to step forward when those under sixteen were commanded to do so, which ultimately saved his life; assignment of the group to the kitchen; slave labor peeling vegetables, which they could not eat, for twelve hours daily; saying evangelic prayers after his shift; risking his life to occasionally eat a piece of the vegetables; a death march in April 1945; German civilians harassing them en route; eating grass and tree buds; arrival at Manětín with 250 of the 1,200 prisoners; local Czechs bringing them food; continuing until only twenty prisoners remained; escaping into a forest with a friend; entering Manětín after the Germans were disarmed; traveling to Plzeň, Prague, then Trnava; not finding any surviving relatives; living with a woman who had hidden him in Bratislava; supporting himself composing crossword puzzles; completing training as an architect; marriage to a Catholic; and the births of two daughters. Mr. F. discusses never having a strong Jewish identity; sharing his story with his children and grandchildren; and attributing his survival to his youth and to luck. He shows photographs and documents. 546 This testimony is in Slovak. 540 Images from this testimony cannot be used in Slovakia or the Czech Republic during the lifetime of the donor. His name can never be used. 524 Jan F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3702). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 562 |e3 copies: |b1/2 in. VHS master; |bBetacam SP submaster; |band 1/2 in. VHS with time coding. 600 10 F., Jan, |d1930- 610 20 Hlinkova slovenská l̕udová strana. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84188467 610 20 Sered (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2004010735 610 20 Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no97029142 610 20 Buchenwald (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97036997 610 20 Berga (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003053732 650 0 Holocaust survivors. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061527 650 0 Video tapes. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143214 650 0 Men. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083510 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 World War, 1939-1945 |xChildren. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148359 650 0 Jewish children in the Holocaust. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96005877 650 0 Mothers and sons. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85087539 650 0 Fathers and sons. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85047455 650 0 Christian converts from Judaism. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85031724 650 0 Forced labor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453 650 0 Death marches. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95006384 650 0 Escapes. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85044783 650 0 Identification (Religion) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064143 651 0 Czechoslovakia. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81032269 651 0 Trnava (Slovakia) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001113300 651 0 Piešt̕any (Slovakia) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81023168 651 0 Bratislava (Slovakia) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80093362 651 0 Slovakia |xHistory |yUprising, 1944. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85123493 651 0 Manětín (Czech Republic) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2011196065 651 0 Plzeň (Czech Republic) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50055265 651 0 Prague (Czech Republic) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79055764 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 690 4 Child survivors. 690 4 Hiding. 690 4 Aid by non-Jews. 690 4 Mutual aid. 690 4 Concentration camp inmates |xReligious life. 690 4 Postwar experiences. 690 4 Survivor-child relations. 693 24 Hlinka guard. 700 1 Salner, Peter, |d1951- |einterviewer. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no95039645 700 1 Antalová, Ingrid, |einterviewer. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96050498 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b4678245 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.3702) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/445h98zd7f 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/