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Helena B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4213) interviewed by Ingrid Antalová and René Lužica,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-4213

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Helena B., a Catholic Romani, who was born in Rakovec nad Ondavou, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1921. She recounts that her father was not Romani; his death when she was three (she does not remember him); only three Romani households in the village; cordial relations with non-Romanies; marriage to a Romani when she was eighteen; the birth of one child prior to the war; her brother's military draft; his capture and imprisonment as a prisoner of war in Germany; deportation of all the Jews from her village; bringing food to partisans in nearby forests; German confiscation of all their livestock and food; the mayor not identifying her family as Romani to the Germans; Hlinka guards harassing and humiliating the other Romanies; her husband working as a musician; round up to an agricultural building by the Germans as the Soviets approached; giving birth to a child there; improved conditions after Soviet arrival; moving to the Czech Republic; caring for her husband's younger siblings, in addition to her six children, after his parents' deaths; working in a factory; and returning to Slovakia after twelve years, although her children remained in the Czech Republic.
    Author/Creator
    B., Helena, 1921-
    Published
    Bratislava, Slovakia : Milan Šimečka Foundation, 1999
    Interview Date
    September 20, 1999.
    Locale
    Slovakia
    Czechoslovakia
    Rakovec nad Ondavou (Slovakia)
    Cite As
    Helena B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4213). 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)
    Postwar experiences.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/5205217
    Record last modified:
    2018-05-29 11:53:00
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