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Margita D. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4208) interviewed by Ingrid Antalová and René Lužica,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-4208

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Margita D., a Catholic Romani, who was born in Pusté, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1931, one of four children. She recalls her family's poverty; the family working for a woodsman and cleaning roads; her job as a housekeeper for their landlord; persecution and harassment by Hlinka guards; Germans burning their village; a Slovak soldier helping them to hide in a stream; villagers hiding them in their cellars; Germans rounding up those who assisted the partisans; her family bringing them food before they were killed by the Germans; helping to bury them; later disinterring the bodies to help document the event, then reburying them in a mass grave with a memorial; liberation by Soviet troops; and the Soviets providing them with food and building houses for them.
Author/Creator: D., Margita, 1931-
Published: Bratislava, Slovakia : Milan Šimečka Foundation, 1999
Interview Date: July 16, 1999.
Locale: Slovakia
Czechoslovakia
Pusté (Slovakia)
Cite As: Margita D. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4208). 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): Child survivors.
Hiding.
Aid by non-Romanies.
Postwar experiences.
Subjects: Video tapes. Women. 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--Children. Czechoslovakia. Pusté (Slovakia) Oral histories (document genres) D., Margita,--1931- 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/5205193
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:26:00
This page:: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt5205193

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