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Alexander G. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3933) interviewed by Peter Salner,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-3933

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    Videotape testimony of Alexander G., who was born in Nové Mesto nad Vahom, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Slovakia) in 1914, one of four children. He recounts his father leaving when he was only a year and a half; their abject poverty; joining his brother in Bratislava in 1928 as a barber's apprentice; playing on a Maccabi soccer team; military draft in 1936; postings in Piešt̕any and Solivar; discharge in 1939; formation of the Slovak state which promulgated anti-Jewish laws; arrest by Hlinka guards in 1942; incarceration in Žilina and Vhyne; working as a barber; liberation by partisans; returning to Bratislava; and reunion with his one surviving brother.
    Author/Creator
    G., Alexander, 1914-
    Published
    Bratislava, Slovakia : Milan Šimečka Foundation, 1996
    Interview Date
    April 18, 1996.
    Locale
    Austria
    Nové Mesto nad Váhom (Slovakia)
    Bratislava (Slovakia)
    Piešt̕any (Slovakia)
    Solivar (Slovakia)
    Cite As
    Alexander G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3933). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Salner, Peter, interviewer.
    Notes
    This testimony is in Slovak.

    Physical Details

    Language
    Slovak
    Copies
    3 copies: 1/2 in. VHS master; Betacam SP submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
    Physical Description
    1 videorecording (1 hr., 25 min.) : col

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    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4470135
    Record last modified:
    2018-05-30 11:51:00
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