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Fridrich D. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3905) interviewed by Peter Salner and Ingrid Králová,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-3905

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    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.

    Physical Details

    Language
    Slovak
    Copies
    3 copies: VHS master; Betacam SP dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
    Physical Description
    1 videorecording (2 hr., 56 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Antisemitism Prewar.
    Hiding.
    Aid by non-Jews.
    False papers.
    Concentration camps Underground movements.
    Hlinka guard.
    Postwar experiences.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4469500
    Record last modified:
    2018-05-30 11:45:00
    This page:
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