Nora G. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Nora G., who was born in Trenčin, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1930, an only child. She recalls her family's assimilated lifestyle; cordial relations with non-Jews; attending a Jewish school; anti-Jewish laws following Slovak independence, including closing of her school and wearing the yellow star; kindness from some non-Jews, including former friends who were in the Hlinka guard; confiscation of her family's business and home; an unsuccessful attempt to enter Hungary illegally; her parents' three-week incarceration; hiding in Bratislava; entering Nováky with her parents voluntarily s rather than being deported; attending school, concerts, and sporting events; replacement of the Hlinka guards after the 1944 uprising; release; placement in a convent; running from approaching German troops; hiding in villages, then the forest; liberation by Soviet troops; returning to Trenčin; and eventually receiving back family possessions and property. Ms. G. notes this is the first time she has shared her story in its entirety and she shows photographs.
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
- G., Nora, -- 1930-
Corporate Bodies
- Nováky (Concentration camp)
- Hlinkova slovenská l̕udová strana.
Subjects
- Forests.
- Postwar experiences.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Hiding.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Fathers and daughters.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Child survivors.
- Hlinka guard.
- Convents.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Slovakia.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Czechoslovakia.
- Trenčín (Slovakia)
- Bratislava (Slovakia)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat