LEADER 04806cpd a2200589 a 4500001 4470149 005 20180530112757.0 008 980731s1996 ctu slo d 035 HVT-3930 035 4470149 035 |9FMQ6439YL 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)1005114421 090 |bHVT-3930 100 1 S., Otto, |d1924- 245 10 Otto S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3930) |h[videorecording] / |cinterviewed by Peter Salner, |fMarch 5, 1996. 260 Bratislava, Slovakia : |bMilan Šimečka Foundation, |c1996. 300 1 videorecording (1 hr., 51 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Otto S., who was born in Topol̕čany, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1924, one of two brothers. He recounts his father's career as a judge; moving to Nové Zámky, then Nitra due to his father's transfers; attending a Jewish school from 1930-1934, then a secular school; cordial relations with non-Jews; anti-Jewish discrimination beginning with Slovak independence; harassment by non-Jewish students; his teacher's dismissal for defending the Jewish students; joining Hashomer Hatzair and Maccabi; living on a hachsharah between 1940 and 1941; returning home; his father's arrest; arrest with his mother and brother months later; incarceration in Žilina, where his father joined them; his uncle obtaining false papers showing they had converted to Christianity before 1938, resulting in their transfer to Vhyne; their release in August 1943 and the family receiving an exemption from deportation due to his father's connections; working as a bookbinder in Liptovský Mikuláš; joining the partisans after the Slovak uprising; killing a German officer; returning to Nitra; reunion with his grandmother and parents; learning his beloved brother had been killed; completing law school; working in a factory based on his socialist commitment; becoming a journalist for socialist publications; expulsion from the party in 1967; working as an attorney; and returning to journalism in 1989. Mr. S. notes the loss of his brother ruining his life. 546 This testimony is in Slovak. 524 Otto S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3930). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 562 |e3 copies: |b1/2 in. VHS master; |bBetacam SP submaster; |band 1/2 in. VHS with time coding. 600 10 S., Otto, |d1924- 610 20 World Hashomer Hatzair. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78023533 610 20 Maccabi World Union. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85114064 610 20 Žilina (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2014134417 650 0 Holocaust survivors. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061527 650 0 Video tapes. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143214 650 0 Men. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083510 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |vPersonal narratives. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061518 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |vPersonal narratives, Jewish. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148465 650 0 Brothers. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85017223 650 0 Mothers and sons. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85087539 650 0 Fathers and sons. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85047455 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xUnderground movements |zSlovakia. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010119764 651 0 Czechoslovakia. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81032269 651 0 Topol̕čany (Slovakia) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81042082 651 0 Nové Zámky (Slovakia) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93061648 651 0 Nitra (Slovakia) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80132141 651 0 Liptovský Mikuláš (Slovakia) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80119549 651 0 Slovakia |xHistory |yUprising, 1944. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85123493 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 690 4 False papers. 690 4 Partisans. 690 4 Aid by non-Jews. 690 4 Postwar effects. 691 4 Vyhne (Slovakia : Concentration camp) 700 1 Salner, Peter, |d1951- |einterviewer. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no95039645 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b4856313 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.3930) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/f47gq6r662 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/