LEADER 04476cpd a2200529 a 4500001 4528147 005 20180529115339.0 008 980731s1996 ctu slo d 035 HVT-3937 035 4528147 035 |9FMW5006YL 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)1005104416 090 |bHVT-3937 100 1 S., Irena. 245 10 Irena S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3937) |h[videorecording] / |cinterviewed by Peter Salner and Eva Salnerová, |fMay 5, 1996. 260 Bratislava, Slovakia : |bMilan Šimečka Foundation, |c1996. 300 1 videorecording (1 hr., 38 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Irena S., who was born in approximately 1941. She recounts learning at age twenty-seven that she may have been born in Poland; being left in Slovakia in September 1943 when she was very ill (she speculates her biological parents were attempting to escape to Hungary); a Jewish man taking her and promising to send her to her parents when she recovered; the town doctor placing her with a Jewish couple; obtaining false papers through her foster mother's sister; bonding with her foster parents within a month; learning Germans were approaching; the adults deciding to hide in the mountains and leave the children with non-Jewish neighbors; being left with a non-Jewish family for a week before the departure; her impossible behavior; her mother deciding to stay with her; the adult group deciding to bring her with them, despite the dangers of having a young child; living in a hut, then a bunker; moving several times; becoming “everyone's child”; moving to Prešov after liberation; her father's incarceration in 1950; their forced relocation to a village; terrible conditions; her father's release a year later; completing high school; applying to university three times due to political issues; admission in 1958; studying journalism; her father's death in 1965; a government job; and resigning in 1991 due to antisemitism. Ms. S. discusses at length events and issues related to discovering her parents were not her biological parents; not being able to imagine loving her mother more than she does, particularly since her mother risked her life for her, a stranger's child; and not knowing which are her real memories and which result from being told about her childhood. 546 This testimony is in Slovak. 506 This testimony can only be viewed at Yale by Yale faculty and/or students. 540 This testimony or excerpts from it cannot be used for publication. 524 Irena S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3937). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 562 |e3 copies: |bBetacam SP dub; |b1/2 VHS in. dub; |band 1/2 in. VHS with time coding. 600 10 S., Irena. 650 0 Holocaust survivors. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061527 650 0 Video tapes. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143214 650 0 Women. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85147274 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 World War, 1939-1945 |xChildren. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148359 650 0 Jewish children in the Holocaust. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96005877 650 0 Foster parents. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051035 651 0 Prešov (Slovakia) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82024583 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 690 4 Child survivors. 690 4 False papers. 690 4 Hiding. 690 4 Aid by non-Jews. 690 4 Postwar experiences. 690 4 Antisemitism |yPostwar. 700 1 Salner, Peter, |d1951- |einterviewer. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no95039645 700 1 Salnerová, Eva, |einterviewer. 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b4916289 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.3937) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/g15t727n0x 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/