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Samuel S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3966) interviewed by Peter Salner and Ingrid Antalová,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-3966

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Samuel S., who was born in Mýtna Nová Ves, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1934, the older of two brothers. He recalls his father losing his business due to anti-Jewish laws; attending a Jewish school in Topol̕čany in 1941; returning home in March 1942; deportations of grandparents and other relatives; escaping with his brother and parents to Nitra; the smuggler taking them to Hungary, abandoning them, and stealing their suitcases; hiding with non-Jews in Obdokovská Pusta for three months starting in October 1942; moving to a brick factory in Nitra, where a friend obtained work papers for his father; visiting his aunt in Hlohovec in September 1944; returning to Nitra; his parents' deportation; returning with his brother to his aunt in Hlohovec; round-up by Hlinka guard; deportation to Sered, then Auschwitz; learning their mother was there; their mother throwing sugar cubes to them over the fence; a guard telling his brother to remain during the evacuation; liberation by Soviet troops; transfer to Kraków, then Katowice; living in an orphanage run by Hashomer Hatzair; reunion with their parents; returning to Nitra; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; and emigration to Palestine in February, with his parents' following that summer. Mr. S. notes not speaking to other children for six months after liberation; reading everything he can about the Holocaust starting in 1946; and his parents leaving Israel in 1956.
    Author/Creator
    S., Samuel, 1934-
    Published
    Bratislava, Slovakia : Milan Šimečka Foundation, 1997
    Interview Date
    November 20, 1997.
    Locale
    Czechoslovakia
    Mýtna Nová Ves (Slovakia)
    Topol̕čany (Slovakia)
    Nitra (Slovakia)
    Obdokovská Pusta (Slovakia)
    Hlohovec (Slovakia)
    Kraków (Poland)
    Katowice (Poland)
    Cite As
    Samuel S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3966). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Salner, Peter, interviewer.
    Antalová, Ingrid, 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., 37 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Child survivors.
    Hiding.
    Aid by non-Jews
    Mutual aid.
    Postwar experiences.
    Postwar effects.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4564203
    Record last modified:
    2018-05-29 11:53:00
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