Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Agnesa U., who was born in Liptovský Mikuláš, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1935. She recalls a pleasant childhood; attending a Jewish school for three years; her family convering to Protestantism, thinking it would help; hiding with a friend in Čemice, then in Bobrovček; escaping to the nearby forest in October 1944 when a neighboring village was burned (her grandmother and disabled cousin remained using false papers); being caught in December; imprisonment in Liptovský Mikuláš, Ružomberok, then deportation with her mother to Sered, and ten days later to Theresienstadt; living in a girls' barrack; a relatively benign experience until the arrival of death march survivors; liberation in May 1945; returning home; reunion with her grandmother and cousin; vainly seeking her father; and neighbors refusing to return their possessions. Ms. U. notes she has difficulty remembering details of her experiences.
- Published
- Bratislava, Slovakia : Milan Šimečka Foundation, 1998
- Interview Date
- February 15, 1998.
- Locale
- Czechoslovakia
Liptovský Mikuláš (Slovakia)
Čemice (Slovakia)
Bobrovček (Slovakia)
Ružomberok (Slovakia) - Cite As
- Agnesa U. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3981). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
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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 (43 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Child survivors.
Hiding.
Aid by non-Jews.
Forests.
Postwar experiences. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Jewish children in the Holocaust. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Mothers and daughters. Christian converts from Judaism. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Slovak. Czechoslovakia. Liptovský Mikuláš (Slovakia) Čemice (Slovakia) Bobrovček (Slovakia) Ružomberok (Slovakia) Oral histories (document genres) U., Agnesa,--1935- Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) Sered (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4564398
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-30 11:51:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4564398
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