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Oral history interview with Stanislava Brožová

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2011.439.28 | RG Number: RG-50.675.0028

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    Oral history interview with Stanislava Brožová

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    Interview Summary
    Stanislava Brožová (née Vtípilová), born in 1931 in Spišská Nová Ves, Slovakia, describes her father, who was a policeman; her father’s service first in Ruthenia, where her brother Jaromír Vtípil was born in 1925, and then in Slovakia; her mother, who was Jewish; being raised Christian (Czechoslovak Hussite Church); being forced to leave Slovakia with her family after the independent Slovak state was established in 1939; going first to Kameničky, Czech Republic; moving in 1940 to Chrudim, Czech Republic, where she spent the rest of the war; her father serving as policeman in Chrudim; attending school while Jaromír went to a business academy; her father divorcing her mother in 1941, so that he could keep his job; her mother not being protected from deportations and working as a servant and knitter; the deportation of her mother on December 5, 1942; the Jews in Chrudim having to wear stars on their clothes and being restricted to a curfew; visiting her mother on daily basis after school before she was deported; going with her mother to visit with her friend Ms. Říhová, who was also Jewish; the arrest and deportation of Ms. Říhová; the forced labor her mother had to do; watching as her mother was deported by train to Terezín; her mother’s death in Auschwitz on January 23, 1943; her brother’s conscription to do forced labor at the railway station in Chotěboř, Czech Republic; her brother’s suicide in 1944 when he was 18 years old; her father remarrying in 1943; how, as a member of the police, her father was responsible for searches in the houses of farmers and peasants, but would tell the people ahead of time so they could hide things; stayed with her father until 1950; converting to Evangelical-Protestant church; and getting married to an Evangelical-Protestant priest.
    Interviewee
    Stanislava Brožova'
    Interviewer
    Adam Hradilek
    Date
    interview:  2014 July 01
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    Czech
    Extent
    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 09:25:28
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