- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Fridrich D., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1919. He recalls attending Jewish elementary school; completing high school in 1937; participating in a communist youth group; joining the party in 1937; imprisonment for distributing flyers; release conditional upon leaving Bratislava; moving to Nitra; being drafted for forced labor in the Slovak Sixth Brigade; postings in Brezno and Liptovský Svätý Peter; release two years later in February 1942; returning to Nitra; receiving a notice to report to the authorities; hiding; arrest; deportation to Nováky; release due to the influence of his German, non-Jewish girlfriend (his future wife); a non-Jewish friend giving him his papers; moving to Žilina, then Michaolvce, posing as a slightly anti-fascist German; friendships with Hlinka guards as well as Jews in hiding; arrest with his girlfriend; return to Nováky; organizing resistance with other communist prisoners; abandonment by the guards during the Slovak uprising; forming a partisan unit; fighting in several locations; returning home after liberation; and living in Dunajská Streda and Prievidza. Mr. D. discusses problems under communism due to his political past.
- Author/Creator
- D., Fridrich, 1919-
- Published
- Bratislava, Slovakia : Milan Šimečka Foundation, 1996
- Interview Date
- February 27, 1996.
- Locale
- Slovakia
Czechoslovakia
Bratislava (Slovakia)
Nitra (Slovakia)
Brezno (Slovakia : Okres)
Liptovský Svätý Peter (Slovakia)
Žilina (Slovakia)
Michalovce (Slovakia)
Dunajská Streda (Slovakia)
Prievidza (Slovakia)
- Cite As
- Fridrich D. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3905). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Salner, Peter, interviewer.
Králová, Ingrid, interviewer.
