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Stefan D. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3990) interviewed by René Lužica,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-3990

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Stefan D., a Catholic Romani, who was born in Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1934. He recalls Hlinka guards destroying their homes; living in a forest; continuing to attend school; the local population being blamed when partisans blew up a bridge near their village; deportation with his mother to Prešov, then Dubnica, a concentration camp for Romanies; his mother giving birth in the train; separation of the women from the children; seeing his mother an hour a day; crowding and very poor hygiene; sparse food rations leading to high death rates, particularly among the children; liberation by partisans and Soviet troops four months later in April 1945; Soviet planes attacking Germans, shooting at them when they left; and the three-week journey walking home.
Author/Creator: D., Stefan, 1934-
Published: Bratislava, Slovakia : Milan Šimečka Foundation, 1998
Interview Date: August 8, 1998.
Locale: Slovakia
Czechoslovakia
Prešov (Slovakia)
Cite As: Stefan D. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3990). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Lužica, René, 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 (49 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Child survivors.
Partisans.
Subjects: Video tapes. Men. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Slovak. Romanies--Nazi persecution--Slovakia. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Romani. Romanies--Slovakia--History--20th century. World War, 1939-1945--Children. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Slovakia. Mothers and sons. Childbirth. Czechoslovakia. Prešov (Slovakia) Oral histories (document genres) D., Stefan,--1934- Hlinkova slovenská l̕udová strana.

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
Special Collection: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

Link to Yale University Library Catalog:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4564415
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:32:00
This page:: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4564415

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