Bartolomej D. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Bartolomej D., a Catholic Romani, who was born in Brekov, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1928. He recounts his father working in a lime factory owned by Jews; Jews providing them with food in winter when there was no work; attending school until age fourteen; observing deportation of the Jews; locals removing all their possessions; his married sister hiding a Jewish family; a Hlinka guard taking over the lime factory; continuing to work there but not receiving their wages; evacuation by Soviet troops to Humenné; returning home two nights later to find all their possessions destroyed; not identifying Hlinka guards after the war, not wanting revenge; living in Liberec to work; and returning home eight months later, where he built a house.
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., Bartolomej, -- 1928-
Corporate Bodies
- Hlinkova slovenská l̕udová strana.
Subjects
- Video tapes.
- Hiding.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Postwar experiences.
- Romanies -- Nazi persecution -- Slovakia.
- Romanies -- Slovakia -- History -- 20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Child survivors.
- Men.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Slovak.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Romani.
Places
- Czechoslovakia.
- Brekov (Slovakia)
- Humenné (Slovakia)
- Liberec (Czech Republic)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat