Oral history interview with Vlasta Poláková
Extent and Medium
1 digital file, MPEG-4
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
- Poláková, Vlasta, 1926-
- Eva Riečanská
- Vlasta Poláková
Corporate Bodies
- Hlinka Guard (Czechoslovakia)
Subjects
- Antisemitism--Slovakia--Žilina.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Slovakia.
- Star of David badges.
- Rajec (Slovakia)
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Slovakia.
- Košice (Slovakia)
- Žilina (Slovakia)
- Curfews--Slovakia--Žilina.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Slovakia.
- Hiding places--Slovakia--Rajec.
- Slovakia--History--1918-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Slovakia.
- Christians--Slovakia.
- Jews--Slovakia--Žilina.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- National songs--Slovakia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Slovak.
- Jews--Persecutions--Slovakia.
- Spišská Nová Ves (Slovakia)
- Forced labor--Slovakia--Žilina.
Genre
- Oral History