LEADER 05380cpd a2200649 a 4500001 4528274 005 20180530112756.0 008 980731s1997 ctu slo d 035 HVT-3958 035 4528274 035 |9FMW5133YL 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)1005113776 090 |bHVT-3958 100 1 S., Valeria, |d1928- 245 10 Valeria S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3958) |h[videorecording] / |cinterviewed by Peter Salner and Ingrid Králová, |fJuly 4, 1997. 260 Bratislava, Slovakia : |bMilan Šimečka Foundation, |c1997. 300 1 videorecording (2 hr., 3 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Valeria S., who was born in Čata, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1928, one of three sisters. She recounts cordial relations with non-Jews; Hungarian occupation in 1939, followed by anti-Jewish restrictions; confiscation of the family store; working to obtain food for her family; German invasion in March 1944; round-up and transport to Levice in May; deportation with her family to Auschwitz; horrendous conditions in the cattle car en route; an SS threatening to shoot her for assisting her grandmother to debark; separation with her sisters from their family; having all their hair shaved and receiving odd clothing; endless roll calls and terrible hunger; later being told of the gas chambers and crematoria (they thought the smoking chimneys were factories); crying all the time; the psychic pain of being compelled to attend a concert while living under conditions of total deprivation; her sisters being selected for transfer; sneaking to their side; transport to Stutthof; slave labor digging trenches; an attack by a dog resulting in her lifelong fear of dogs; transfer to another camp; entering a passive vegetative state, having lost all human feelings; a death march; an SS giving her sister extra food that she shared with her, her other sister, and cousin; escaping with her sisters and cousin; liberation by Soviet troops who fed and clothed them; locking themselves into a room to avoid rape; returning home, hoping to find their parents (they did not survive); marriage; the births of her children; her husband's death; and moving to Israel to join her daughter. Ms. S. recalls a slave labor supervisor who left food that she shared with her sisters and cousin; not discussing her experiences with her sisters and only recently with her children; and frequent nightmares. 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 Valeria S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3958). 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., Valeria, |d1928- 610 20 Auschwitz (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96112360 610 20 Stutthof (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no97029619 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 Concentration camps |xPsychological aspects. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85029590 650 0 Sisters. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85123008 650 0 Forced labor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453 650 0 Concentration camp inmates |xFamily relationships. 650 0 Escapes. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85044783 650 0 Nightmares. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091914 651 0 Czechoslovakia. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81032269 651 0 Levice (Slovakia) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96073069 651 0 Čata (Slovakia) 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 690 4 Child survivors. 690 4 Hungarian occupation. 690 4 Mutual aid. 690 4 Aid by non-Jews. 690 4 Postwar experiences. 690 4 Postwar effects. 690 4 Survivor-child relations. 700 1 Salner, Peter, |d1951- |einterviewer. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no95039645 700 1 Králová, Ingrid, |einterviewer. 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b4916419 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.3958) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/f76639kf22 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/