Juraj S. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Juraj S., who was born in Bratislava, Slovakia on October 17, 1940. He recounts moving to Michalovce because his parents thought it safer; his brother's birth in 1942; living in Humenné; being hidden with his brother, parents, and grandmother by a farmer in Hlohovec; hiding under the floor during searches by Hlinka guard; once hiding alone for a week, which traumatized him for years; their arrest, then release as non-Jews when his father showed he wasn't circumcised (his paternal grandfather did not have his father circumcised due to the death of a previously born brother from circumcision); hiding in a forest; liberation by Romanian troops; his brother's death from dysentery; and locals refusing to return their property. Mr. S. discusses several of his father's wartime experiences; their rescuer's moral opposition to the persecution of Jews; continuing contacts with him and his daughter; and stuttering resulting from wartime trauma.

1 videocassette