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Arnost K. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4115)

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-4115

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Arnost K., who was born in Uherský Brod, Czechslovakia (presently Czech Republic) in 1921. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; participating in Maccabi ha-Ẓair; arrival of German-Jewish refugees in the mid-1930s; German occupation; a non-Jewish friend helping him save objects from their synagogue when it was burned; supporting resistance activities; a policeman warning him he was going to be arrested; illegally entering Slovakia in March 1942; hiding with a Jewish woman in Nové Mesto nad Váhom; arrest by the Hlinka guard; his friend obtaining his release; escaping to Ivanka pri Dunaji; obtaining false papers and a job; being sent back to Nové Mesto nad Váhom; a non-Jew hiding him, a Catholic friend, and others in her barn; praying; hiding in a chimney during a German search; liberation; and learning his parents had been deported to Auschwitz and did not survive. Mr. K. discusses the impossibility of repaying the woman who hid him; supporting her until her death in 1967; visiting her grave annually with his family; and attributing his survival to help from God.
    Author/Creator
    K., Arnost, 1921-
    Published
    Bratislava, Slovakia : Milan Šimečka Foundation, 1996
    Interview Date
    December 14, 1996.
    Locale
    Czechoslovakia
    Uherský Brod (Czech Republic)
    Nové Mesto nad Váhom (Slovakia)
    Ivanka pri Dunaji (Slovakia)
    Cite As
    Arnost K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4115). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Notes
    This testimony is in Slovak.

    Physical Details

    Language
    Slovak
    Copies
    3 copies: 1/2 in. VHS submaster; Betacam SP dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
    Physical Description
    1 videorecording (2 hr., 47 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Aid by non-Jews.
    Hiding.
    False papers.
    Postwar experiences.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4838795
    Record last modified:
    2018-06-04 13:26:00
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