Hilda E. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 2899
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Hilda E., who was born in Dolny? Kubi?n, Czechoslovakia in 1928. She recalls cordial relations with non-Jews; moving to Topol?c?any; attending a Jewish school; deportation to Z?ilina; receiving food from her brother who was married to a non-Jew; transfer to Nova?ky; forced labor as a seamstress; educational, cultural, religious life, and musical performances in Nova?ky; contacts with local partisans through the camp underground; liberation by a partisan rebellion; working as a medical aide with the partisans; joining her mother in Banska? Bystrica; fleeing German bombardment; separation from her mother; hiding with non-Jews using false documents; joining her brother in Z?ilina; leaving due to fear of exposure; living as a Christian with non-Jews in villages; working in Z?ilina to earn money to assist the family with whom she lived; assisting hidden Jews; liberation; reunion with her brother; learning her mother had perished at Bergen-Belsen; attending school in Bratislava; and emigration to Israel. Mrs. E. notes being denied permission to visit Czechoslovakia.

Extent and Medium

3 videocassettes

Conditions Governing Access

This testimony is open with permission.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.

Rules and Conventions

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Process Info

  • compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

People

  • E., Hilda, -- 1928-

Corporate Bodies

  • Nováky (Concentration camp)
  • Žilina (Concentration camp)

Subjects

  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • Women.
  • Video tapes.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Forced labor.
  • Family.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Concentration camp inmates -- Religious life.
  • Concentration camps -- Songs and music.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Slovakia.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance.
  • Child survivors.
  • Partisans.
  • Hiding.
  • Concentration camps -- Underground movements.
  • Aid by non-Jews.
  • False papers.
  • Postwar experiences.

Places

  • Czechoslovakia.
  • Dolný Kubín (Slovakia)
  • Topoĺčany (Slovakia)
  • Banská Bystrica (Slovakia)
  • Žilina (Slovakia)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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