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Bartolmej D. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3992) interviewed by Ingrid Antalová and René Lužica,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-3992

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Bartolmej D., a Catholic Romani, who was born in Šaštín, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1924. He recalls his parents encouraging education; attending the local school; cordial relations with other ethnic groups; his father's government employment; his mother and sisters working for Jews; a Jewish physician who did not charge for treating them; restrictions of Romani rights under the Hlinka guard beginning in 1939; his brothers' deportation for forced labor; trying to comfort the local Jews when they were rounded-up and deported; cruel treatment by Hlinka guard; assistance from the priest and other locals; and negative changes in the Romani way of life in the 1960s when they were forced to move to cities.
Author/Creator: D., Bartolmej, 1924-
Published: Bratislava, Slovakia : Milan Šimečka Foundation, 1998
Interview Date: September 25, 1998.
Locale: Slovakia
Czechoslovakia
Šaštín (Slovakia)
Cite As: Bartolmej D. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3992). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Antalová, Ingrid, interviewer.
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 (2 hr., 6 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Aid by non-Romanies.
Postwar experiences.
Subjects: Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Slovak. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Romani. Romanies--Slovakia--History--20th century. Czechoslovakia. Šaštín (Slovakia) Oral histories (document genres) D., Bartolmej,--1924- 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/4564421
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:28:00
This page:: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4564421

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