Rozália P. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Rozália P., who was born in Zlaté Moravce, Czechoslovakia in 1926. She recalls her family's modest hotel business; friendly relations with non-Jews prior to Hitler; anti-Jewish restrictions; confiscation of their business; deportations, including her two brothers (she never saw them again); deportation, with her parents and sister, to Nováky in June 1942; forced labor; their exemption from deportation; her mother's privileged position in the guards' kitchen; receiving extra food from her mother; liberation by partisans in 1944; joining the uprising in Banská Bystrica; separation from the partisans; hiding in the forest and in a village; traveling to Ružomberok with a partisan; living with a Slovak family using her false papers to obtain legitimate papers; returning to Banská Bystrica; working in a sewing shop; liberation; and reuniting with her sister, then with her parents in Zvolen. Mrs. P. discusses guilt at surviving when most of her friends and relatives did not; nightmares; continuing fears; pervasive memories of humiliation and degradation which she would like to forget but cannot; and her resulting lack of self-esteem.
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
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- P., Rozália, -- 1926-
Corporate Bodies
- Nováky (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- False papers.
- Mutual aid.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Resistance.
- Hiding.
- Forests.
- Postwar effects.
- Child survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Slovakia.
- Parent and child.
- Forced labor.
- Sisters.
- Nightmares.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
Places
- Zvolen (Slovakia)
- Slovakia -- History -- Uprising, 1944.
- Ružomberok (Slovakia)
- Zlaté Moravce (Slovakia)
- Banská Bystrica (Slovakia)
- Czechoslovakia.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat