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Katarina B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4218)
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Title
Katarina B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4218) [videorecording] / interviewed by Ingrid Antalová and René Lužica, September 25, 1998.
Created
Bratislava, Slovakia : Milan Šimečka Foundation, 1998.
Physical Description
1 videorecording (47 min.) : col.
Language
Slovak
Notes
This testimony is in Slovak.
Access and use
This testimony can only be viewed at Yale by Yale faculty and/or students.
This testimony or excerpts from it cannot be used for publication.
Summary
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.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
Katarina B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4218). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Cite as
Katarina B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4218). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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Oral histories (document genres)
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