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Edita W. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4128)

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-4128

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Edita W., who was born in Liptovský Mikuláš, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1920. She recalls pleasant visits to her grandparents in Dovalovo; working for the Bata shoe company in Zlín and studying; participating in Maccabi ha-Ẓair; returning to Liptovský Mikuláš; working for a local leather company; marriage in August 1939; anti-Jewish laws; obtaining false papers; her employers negotiating to save her from deportation; a policeman warning her family in order to save them from deportation; a friend who was married to a Hlinka guard helping her; hiding with her husband in Jalovec and a forest during the 1944 Slovak uprising; her brother visiting; spending the last weeks of the war in Prosiek; contacts with partisans; returning home after the war; and finding her parents, who had been in hiding, and her sister, who had been deported to camps. Ms. W. discusses her belief that it is a miracle she and her relatives survived. She shows photographs.
Author/Creator: W., Edita, 1920-
Published: Bratislava, Slovakia : Milan Šimečka Foundation, 1998
Interview Date: January 15, 1998.
Locale: Slovakia
Czechoslovakia
Liptovský Mikuláš (Slovakia)
Dovalovo (Slovakia)
Zlín (Czech Republic)
Jalovec (Slovakia)
Prosiek (Slovakia)
Cite As: Edita W. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4128). 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 master; Betacam SP submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (1 hr., 4 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Aid by non-Jews.
Hiding.
False papers.
Partisans.
Postwar experiences.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Brothers and sisters. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Slovakia. Husband and wife. Czechoslovakia. Liptovský Mikuláš (Slovakia) Dovalovo (Slovakia) Zlín (Czech Republic) Slovakia--History--Uprising, 1944. Jalovec (Slovakia) Prosiek (Slovakia) Oral histories (document genres) W., Edita,--1920- Hlinkova slovenská l̕udová strana. Bata Shoe Company.

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/4847660
Record last modified:: 2018-05-29 11:53:00
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