Alzbeta D. Holocaust testimony
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
People
- D., Alzbeta, -- 1929-
Corporate Bodies
- Hlinkova slovenská l udová strana.
- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
Subjects
- Aid by non-Romanies.
- Hlinka guard.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- Romanies -- Nazi persecution -- Slovakia.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Child survivors.
- Romanies -- Slovakia -- History -- 20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Romani.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Family.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
Places
- Dlhé nad Cirochou (Slovakia)
- Dubnica nad Váhom (Slovakia)
- Czechoslovakia.
- Žilina (Slovakia)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat