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Oral history interview with Geisa Olah

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1997.A.0445.10 | RG Number: RG-50.444.0010

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    Oral history interview with Geisa Olah

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    Interview Summary
    Geisa Olah, born in 1926, describes being one of nine children in his Romani family; receiving some schooling and working with his father making bricks; joining the partisan group Jegorov in 1944 and meeting Czechoslovakian military commander Ludvik Svoboda; receiving two days of training then fighting in the mountains of Slovakia; being captured in November 1944 and being taken to a prisoners of war camp in Hamburg, Germany, where he remained until liberation; returning home after liberation; leaving the military in 1948; marrying and working in a glass factory in Teplice, Czechoslovakia; working on an agricultural farm; and he and his wife having nine children.
    Interviewee
    Geisa Olah
    Interviewer
    Karen Michel
    Date
    interview:  1997 June 17
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    Czech
    Extent
    2 videocasettes (Betacam SP) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch coordinated the interview with Geisa Olah on June 17, 1997 as part of the Museum's Czech Roma Documentation Project..
    Funding Note
    The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
    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 08:33:01
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