- Summary
- Videtape testimony of Alzbeta L., who was born in Spišská Stará Ves, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Slovakia) in 1909, one of five children. She recounts her family's observant Jewish life; attending business school in Kežmarok; working for a Jewish lawyer; the impact of anti-Jewish laws; her boss sending her to Plavnica during the Slovak uprising; hiding with him and others in villages and the forests; digging and living in bunkers; capture by Germans in Jakubany; forced labor there and in Kežmarok; transfer from Poprad to Ravensbrück; crying all the time; transfer to Malchow; hospitalization; slave labor making bullets; evacuation by foot in May 1945; liberation by Soviet troops; recuperating for six weeks; traveling to Prague, then home; the trauma of learning her sisters had not survived; difficulty recovering family property; and marriage to a survivor whose wife and children had been killed. Ms. L. recalls the pain of starvation in camps; receiving extra food and a sweater from other prisoners; the loss of her sisters as an unhealed wound; and continuing antisemitism. She shows photographs and documents.
- Author/Creator
- L., Alzbeta, 1909-
- Published
- Bratislava, Slovakia : Milan Šimečka Foundation, 1995
- Interview Date
- December 26, 1995.
- Locale
- Austria
Spišská Stará Ves (Slovakia)
Kežmarok (Slovakia)
Plavnica (Slovakia)
Slovakia
Jakubany (Slovakia)
Poprad (Slovakia)
Prague (Czech Republic)
- Cite As
- Alzbeta L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3853). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Salnerová, Eva, interviewer.
Hunčík, Péter, interviewer.
- Notes
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This testimony is in Slovak.
