Paulina B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4203)
Videotape testimony of Paulina B., a Catholic Romani, who was born in Banská Bystrica, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1919, one of twelve children. She recalls her family's poverty; living on a farm; caring for the animals; her father's death; not attending school; working as a mason from age fourteen; marriage at seventeen; the births of two children; her husband's death three years later; persecution by Germans and Hlinka guard; Romanies helping each other; her children's deaths due to lack of medical care; hiding with her mother and sisters in the basement of a neighbor's home, then in an underground shelter in the forest; a nearby villager providing food for them; one brother's death in the partisans; liberation by Soviet troops; traveling to another village; returning home; finding their houses destroyed; adopting a girl from an orphanage; and present-day discrimination against Romanies.
- Published
- Bratislava, Slovakia : Milan Šimečka Foundation, 1999
- Interview Date
- July 18, 1999.
- Locale
- Slovakia
Czechoslovakia
Banská Bystrica (Slovakia) - Language
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Slovak
- Copies
- 3 copies: 1/2 in. VHS master; Betacam SP submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Cite As
- Paulina B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4203). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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View in Yale University Library Catalog: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/5205245
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