Jan B. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Jan B., a Catholic Romani, who was born in Klenovec, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1931. He recalls a relatively good life during the Czechoslovak period; persecution once Slovakia was established; harassment and beatings by the Hlinka guard, their youth movement, and his teacher; prohibitions on train and bus travel; hiding in a forest during German shootings; Hlinka guard taking Jews away; improvements during the Slovak uprising; Hlinka guards searching for partisans and weapons and vandalizing their houses; and decreased discrimination against Romanies by the communist government after the war.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette
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This testimony can only be viewed at Yale by Yale faculty and/or students.
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. This testimony or excerpts from it cannot be used for publication.
Rules and Conventions
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- B., Jan, -- 1931-
Corporate Bodies
- Hlinkova slovenská l̕udová strana.
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Romani.
- Romanies -- Nazi persecution -- Slovakia.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Slovak.
- Video tapes.
- Men.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Slovakia.
- Romanies -- Slovakia -- History -- 20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
Places
- Slovakia -- History -- Uprising, 1944.
- Czechoslovakia.
- Klenovec (Slovakia)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat