Oral history interview with Ján Čorba
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette (DVCAM), sound, color ; 1/4 in.
Creator(s)
- Eva Riečanská
Biographical History
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.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation
Funding Note: The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
Funding Note: The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Ján Čorba
- Eva Riečanská
- Čorba, Ján, 1927-
Corporate Bodies
- Hlinka Guard (Czechoslovakia)
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Slovakia.
- Conversion--Catholic Church.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Czechoslovakia.
- Conversion--Christianity.
- Vranov nad Topl'ou (Slovakia)
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Czech.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Jewish partisans (Holocaust)--Slovakia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Slovakia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Slovakia.
- Slovakia--History--1918-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Slovakia.
- Jews--Slovakia--Vranov nad Topl'ou.
- Michalovce (Slovakia)
- Czechoslovakia--History--1938-1945.
- Aryanization--Slovakia.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Czechoslovakia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Slovak.
- Guerrillas--Slovakia.
- Star of David badges.
- Čemerné (Vranov nad Topl'ou, Slovakia)
- Slovakia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage--Slovakia.
- Jews--Persecutions--Slovakia.
Genre
- Oral History