Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Katarina B., a Catholic Romani, who was born in Kúty, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1928. She recalls a teacher who encouraged Romani children to attend school; learning to read; formation of the Slovak Republic resulting in persecution of Romanies and Jews, particularly by Hlinka guards and the police; hearing of the deportation of the three Jewish families from her village; frequent beatings and extreme poverty; hiding in the forest and with her future husband in Brodské; liberation by Soviet troops; former Hlinka guards receiving no punishment and living among them; improved conditions after the war; and sending all of her children to school.
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
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- B., Katarina, -- 1928-
Corporate Bodies
- Hlinkova slovenská l̕udová strana.
Subjects
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- Postwar experiences.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Romani.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Slovak.
- Romanies -- Nazi persecution -- Slovakia.
- Romanies -- Slovakia -- History -- 20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Hiding.
- Forests.
Places
- Czechioslovakia.
- Brodské (Slovakia)
- Kúty (Slovakia)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat