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Jan B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4207) interviewed by Ingrid Antalová and René Lužica,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-4207

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Jan B., a Catholic Romani, who was born in Sásová, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1924, one of twelve children. He recounts his family's poverty; attending school; a local priest and teacher taking an interest in him; continuing school in Banská Bystrica; persecution of Romanies after the formation of the Slovak state; forced labor with his father building roads under harsh conditions; threat of deportation by the Hlinka guard; commiserating with the Jews; observing their deportations; his family hiding a Jewish girl; her discovery; joining the partisans; blowing up railroads in many locations; equal treatment of him and other Romanies in the partisans; receiving food from local Romanies; liberation eight months after joining the partisans; returning home; good treatment under the communists; and persecution more recently. He notes the Hlinka and Germans were equally cruel and the murder of many of his family, including his sister.
Author/Creator: B., Jan, 1924-
Published: Bratislava, Slovakia : Milan Šimečka Foundation, 1999
Interview Date: September 18, 1999.
Locale: Slovakia
Czechoslovakia
Sásová (Slovakia)
Banská Bystrica (Slovakia)
Cite As: Jan B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4207). 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 (53 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Partisans.
Postwar experiences.
Aid by non-Jews.
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--Nazi persecution--Slovakia. Romanies--Slovakia--History--20th century. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Slovakia. Forced labor. Czechoslovakia. Sásová (Slovakia) Banská Bystrica (Slovakia) Oral histories (document genres) B., Jan,--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/5205190
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:26:00
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