Walter P. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Walter P., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia in 1921. He recounts attending Czech and Jewish schools; his bar mitzvah; playing soccer with Maccabi in Dubnica; anti-Jewish restrictions resulting in the banning of Jews from soccer in 1939; working in Bratislava; a beating by German soldiers; conscription into the Sixth Slovak Brigade in October 1941; postings in Sabinov and Humenné; forced labor in Svätý Jur; sneaking away to Vajnory (Dvorník) and Bratislava on weekends; playing soccer for the Brigade, then for the Hlinka team; transfer in 1943 to Kostolná, then Dubnica nad Váhom; escaping to join the uprising in Valaská Belá, Kláštor pod Znievom, and Banská Bystrica; supplying the resistance fighters; hiding in the mountains when the uprising failed; transfer to a hospital in Trebišov; living in Dubnica after the war; moving to Bratislava in October 1946; continuing to play soccer; and working as a ground hockey referee. Mr. P. discusses his parents' and relatives' deaths after deportation; the fates of his teammates; and attending reunions of the Sixth Slovak Brigade in Bratislava and Israel. He shows photographs.

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