Alzbeta D. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 3364
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Alzbeta D., a Romani, who was born in Dlhé nad Cirochou, Czechoslovakia in 1929, one of nine children. She recounts her father was a blacksmith; cordial relations with Jews; deportation of all the Romanies in town to Dubnica nad Váhom; harsh conditions; a guard who had known her relatives warning her not to reveal when they were sick since the sick were killed; warning everyone else; shootings and beatings by Hlinka guards; punishment of a man in February who had to strip and jump into a cesspool (he died); liberation by Soviet troops in winter; fleeing through the woods with her family group of over fifty; encounters with Germans who killed several of them; some children starving to death; Red Cross assistance in Žilina; arriving home in July; finding their house vandalized; her father's employment as a bricklayer by the communists; marriage to a man she had met in Dubnica nad Váhom; and the birth of six children. Mrs. D. notes all the Jews in her village were deported and the achievements of her sons.

Extent and Medium

1 videocassette

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

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