- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Juliana F., who was born in Prešov, Czechoslovakia in 1936. She recalls expulsion from their home and confiscation of her father's business in 1941; conversion to Christianity with her parents and grandmother, trying to avoid deportation; the pastor understanding their motivation; hiding with non-Jewish friends for three weeks; her father's arrest; joining him on a deportation train to Žilina; her father's brother using his influence (he was the doctor there) to have them transferred two months later to Vyhne; living among many converted Jews; her parents working; attending school; visiting her uncle in Liptovský Mikuláš for five weeks in 1943; moving with partisans to Banská Štiavnica during the Slovak uprising; moving to forest huts with about seventy Jews and partisans when the uprising failed; assistance from partisans when she was ill; moving to Mýto pod Ďumbierom; assistance from Romanian soldiers; returning to Prešov after the war; reunion with her uncle; and resuming their life. Ms. F. notes weeping when people discussed their experiences right after the war; realizing, as she matured, how lucky she was to survive with her parents and grandmother; many relatives who were killed; and recently traveling to Kremnička to recall many friends who did not survive.
- Author/Creator
- F., Juliana, 1936-
- Published
- Bratislava, Slovakia : Milan Šimečka Foundation, 1995
- Interview Date
- October 15, 1995.
- Locale
- Slovakia
Czechoslovakia
Prešov (Slovakia)
Vyhne (Slovakia)
Liptovský Mikuláš (Slovakia)
Banská Štiavnica (Slovakia)
Mýto pod Ďumbierom (Slovakia)
Kremnička (Slovakia)
- Cite As
- Juliana F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3860). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Fialová, Zuzana, interviewer.
Salamon, Pavol, interviewer.
- Notes
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This testimony is in Slovak.
