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Oral history interview with Shmuel Givony

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.249 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0249

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    Oral history interview with Shmuel Givony

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    Interview Summary
    Shmuel Givony (Tibor Salomon), born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (Slovakia) on June 30, 1923, discusses his youth; attending a Jewish German language school; participating in the Bar Kochba swim club; his sister's emigration to England in 1939; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; studying plumbing; his father's death in 1940; the Aryanization of Jewish businesses; war breaking out in September 1941; slave labor for the Hlinka guard; release after four months; his deportation to Sered; his mother hiding with non-Jews; bringing her to Sered and hiding her with a Czech family; his privileged position due to his plumbing skills; prisoners organizing sports and cultural events; joining a group that produced false paper and obtained weapons; assignment as a plumber outside the camp; escaping in 1943; traveling to Rimavská Sobota, Rimavská Sec, then Budapest; assistance from relatives; reconnecting with Hashomer Hatzair; traveling with two friends to Kosice, then Presov, using false papers; working as a plumber; meeting with his friends to maintain his Jewish identity; fleeing to Nitra fearing exposure; attending an underground meeting in Piestany; joining a partisan group; an ambush in Oslany; traveling to Bučovice; battles with Germans in the Slovak Uprising; obtaining permits to travel to Zvolen, then Bratislava; working in a factory as a non-Jew; visiting his mother; working for the underground; his arrest; interrogation by the Gestapo; being deportated to Sered; volunteering for bomb removal in Bratislava; a failed attempt to organize an escape; returning to Sered; volunteering as a welder for Alois Brunner, camp commandant; escaping with two others from a train transport; assistance from Czechs; hiding in Trencín, Slovakia; liberation by Soviet troops; returning home; learning his mother was killed in Ravensbrück; leading a Zionist youth group; traveling to Belgium; and immigrating to Palestine via Cyprus in 1947. He shows false papers he had used.
    Interviewee
    Shmuel Givony
    Date
    interview:  1995 February 15
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

    Language
    Hebrew
    Extent
    5 videocassettes (U-Matic) : sound, color ; 3/4 in..

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    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Shmuel Givony in Israel on February 15, 1995. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview in 1996, as an accretion to the original collection of Israel Documentation Project interviews received by transfer in February 1995.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
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    2023-11-16 08:15:46
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