Helena S., Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Helena S., a Catholic Romani, who was born in Giraltovce, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1918. She recalls working as a housekeeper for a Jewish family; cordial relations with non-Romanies; marriage; the births of children; persecution of Jews and Romanies by Hlinka guards; her husband's arrest and deportation; begging for food since she had no means of support; Germans deporting the Jews and assaulting and killing Romanies; hiding in the woods with her children; her husband's return after the war; his one-year recuperation; and former Hlinka guards leaving town, fearing retribution by the Romanies.
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
- S., Helena, -- 1918-
Corporate Bodies
- Hlinkova slovenská l̕udová strana.
Subjects
- Mother and child.
- Hiding.
- Postwar experiences.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Slovak.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Romani.
- Romanies -- Nazi persecution -- Slovakia.
- Romanies -- Slovakia -- History -- 20th century.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
Places
- Giraltovce (Slovakia)
- Czechoslovakia.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat