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Oral history interview with Emília Kernová

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2011.438.26 | RG Number: RG-50.688.0026

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    Oral history interview with Emília Kernová

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    Interview Summary
    Emília Kernová, born in 1926 in Pezinok, Czechoslovakia (present day Slovakia), describes the persecution of her father because of his membership in Milan Rastislav Štefánik's legion during the World War I; her family's move to Modra in 1938; living with a family in Trnava who took patronage over her; her adopted family aiding Jews during the war; aiding in the transportation of Jewish children into hiding in 1941; her mother caring for an elderly Jewish woman; partisans hiding in the orphanage; the burning of a dormitory which led to the death of many children; bringing food to a Jewish family in hiding; the deportation of the Jews; and her relationships with the Jewish community after the war.
    Interviewee
    Emília Kernová
    Date
    interview:  2014 April 08
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

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    1 digital file : MPEG-4.

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    Provenance
    This is a witness interview of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Perpetrators, Collaborators, and Witnesses: The Jeff and Toby Herr Testimony Initiative, a multi-year project to record the testimonies of non-Jewish witnesses to the Holocaust. The interview was directed and supervised by Nathan Beyrak.
    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.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 09:26:46
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