Walter P. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Walter P., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia in 1921. He recounts attending Czech and Jewish schools; his bar mitzvah; playing soccer with Maccabi in Dubnica; anti-Jewish restrictions resulting in the banning of Jews from soccer in 1939; working in Bratislava; a beating by German soldiers; conscription into the Sixth Slovak Brigade in October 1941; postings in Sabinov and Humenné; forced labor in Svätý Jur; sneaking away to Vajnory (Dvorník) and Bratislava on weekends; playing soccer for the Brigade, then for the Hlinka team; transfer in 1943 to Kostolná, then Dubnica nad Váhom; escaping to join the uprising in Valaská Belá, Kláštor pod Znievom, and Banská Bystrica; supplying the resistance fighters; hiding in the mountains when the uprising failed; transfer to a hospital in Trebišov; living in Dubnica after the war; moving to Bratislava in October 1946; continuing to play soccer; and working as a ground hockey referee. Mr. P. discusses his parents' and relatives' deaths after deportation; the fates of his teammates; and attending reunions of the Sixth Slovak Brigade in Bratislava and Israel. He shows photographs.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette
Conditions Governing Access
This testimony is open with permission.
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.
Rules and Conventions
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Process Info
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People
- P., Walter, -- 1921-
Corporate Bodies
- Hlinkova slovenská l̕udová strana.
- Maccabi World Union.
Subjects
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Forced labor.
- Postwar experiences.
- Resistance.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor -- Slovakia.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Slovakia.
- Bar mitzvah.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Men.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
Places
- Kostolná (Slovakia)
- Svätý Jur (Slovakia)
- Slovakia -- History -- Uprising, 1944.
- Dubnica nad Váhom (Slovakia)
- Czechoslovakia.
- Humenné (Slovakia)
- Bratislava (Slovakia)
- Dubnica (Slovakia)
- Sabinov (Slovakia)
- Banská Bystrica (Slovakia)
- Trebišov (Slovakia)
- Dvorník (Slovakia)
- Valaská Belá (Slovakia)
- Kláštor pod Znievom (Slovakia)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat