Margita D. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Margita D., a Catholic Romani, who was born in Pusté, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1931, one of four children. She recalls her family's poverty; the family working for a woodsman and cleaning roads; her job as a housekeeper for their landlord; persecution and harassment by Hlinka guards; Germans burning their village; a Slovak soldier helping them to hide in a stream; villagers hiding them in their cellars; Germans rounding up those who assisted the partisans; her family bringing them food before they were killed by the Germans; helping to bury them; later disinterring the bodies to help document the event, then reburying them in a mass grave with a memorial; liberation by Soviet troops; and the Soviets providing them with food and building houses for them.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette
Conditions Governing Access
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
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- D., Margita, -- 1931-
Corporate Bodies
- Hlinkova slovenská l̕udová strana.
Subjects
- Romanies -- Nazi persecution -- Slovakia.
- Romanies -- Slovakia -- History -- 20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Child survivors.
- Hiding.
- Aid by non-Romanies.
- Postwar experiences.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Slovak.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Romani.
Places
- Czechoslovakia.
- Pusté (Slovakia)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat