Olga L. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Olga L., who was born in Lučenec, Czechoslovakia in 1921. She recalls three much older siblings and one younger brother; a very happy childhood; living in Filakovo; attending school in Lučenec; her sister's marriage; moving back to Lučenec in 1936; Hungarian occupation; meeting her future husband in a sewing workshop; her brother's and fiancé's draft into Hungarian slave labor battalions; visiting her fiancé in Rimavská Sobota; marriage in December 1943 when her fiancé was released; his recall; ghettoization; her father's refusal to escape; her sister (who was in Banská Bystrica) arranging for her escape; hiding with non-Jewish friends; learning the ghetto had been liquidated (she never saw her brother or parents again); a non-Jew bringing her to Banská Bystrica; her sister obtaining false papers for her; working as a child care provider for a wealthy family in Poprad; staying in Starý Smokovec with the child; returning to Banská Bystrica to join her husband; joining the uprising; escaping during German attack; separation from her husband (she never saw him again); being hidden in several villages as a partisan, not a Jew; billeting of German and Hungarian officers where she stayed; and liberation by Soviet troops.

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