Nadácia Milana Šimečku

Milan Šimečka Foundation

Address

Panenská 4
Bratislava
811 03
Slovakia

Phone

+421 2 544 335 52

Email

nms@nadaciams.sk

Web

http://www.nadaciamilanasimecku.sk

History

Milan Šimečka Foundation (MSF) is one of the oldest NGOs in Slovakia. The name refers to Milan Šimečka, one of the most influential philosophers, writers and dissidents in the Czechoslovakia. For 25 years MSF has been supporting the development of civil society, advocating for human rights, minorities as well as educating about the Holocaust, antisemitism and recently also about Communism. Nowadays the work of foundation is divided into 3 programs: Memory; Inclusion; Diversity. The topic of Holocaust is implemented in MSF´s organisation since 1995, when the Foundation conducted unique project of recording video-testimonies of Holocaust survivors, both Jewish and Romani. In the program Memory MSF now focuses mostly on education with projects Anne Frank - History for Today, online course Education about Holocaust for the Teachers, Students in Traces of Communism. In the same program MSF also organizes events for general public, for instance Vrba-Wetzler Memorial or Remember November.

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Osudy tých čo prežili Holokaust
- Fates of those who survived the Holocaust
- Nadácia Milana Šimečku
- 01
- English
- 1938-1945
- 145 oral history testimonies, digital video as well as transcription text files.
- Updated 7 years ago
Collection contains 150 video testimonies of the Holocaust survivors. It is a unique collection of testimonies describing the life of the Jewish minority in Slovakia during the 20th century. There are 69 women and 76 men testimonies. The oldest survivor was born in 1904 and the youngest in 1944. Most of the testimonies were collected from 1995 till 1999 with some additional testimonies added after the year 2000. Testimonies were collected using the oral history technique. Geographically they cover the whole territory of Slovakia including the southern regions which during the war were occup...

Nadácia Milana Šimečku

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