Eva S. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Eva S., who was born in Trenčín, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1935. She recounts attending a Jewish school for one grade; her family's exemption from deportation due to her father's dental practice; conversion with her parents by an evangelical priest; a patient who was in the Hlinka guard warning them they would be deported the next day; staying with non-Jewish neighbors, who then led them to partisan territory; staying with an evangelical priest in ľubietová, who offered to save her; her parents insistence that they stay together; her father working for the partisans in Banská Bystrica as a dentist/doctor; retreating to the Tatra Mountains, then to Povrazník; living in a tent; difficulties obtaining food and water; her father wanting to surrender; encountering a non-Jewish couple who regularly brought them food; a man warning them of Germans approaching and leading them to another partisan unit that assisted them building a bunker in a forest; her father providing medical care to the partisans; traveling to Detva, which had already been liberated; crossing a field of corpses en route; living in Košice until Trenčín was liberated; returning home; neighbors returning their possessions; learning many relatives did not survive; continuing her education; the births of two brothers; and difficulties with the Communist regime starting in 1948. Ms. S. notes feeling safe with the partisans, and her family continuing to attend the evangelical church.
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
- S., Eva , -- 1935-
Corporate Bodies
- Hlinkova slovenská l̕udová strana.
Subjects
- Forests.
- Bunkers.
- Postwar experiences.
- Partisans.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Slovakia.
- Child survivors.
- Hlinka guard.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Christian converts from Judaism.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
Places
- ľubietová (Slovakia)
- Košice (Slovakia)
- Detva (Slovakia)
- Povrazník (Slovakia)
- Low Tatra Mountains (Slovakia)
- Czechoslovakia.
- Trenčín (Slovakia)
- Banská Bystrica (Slovakia)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat