Ladislav Z. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Ladislav Z., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1919, one of three children. He recounts living in Trnava; moving to Bratislava in 1926; his parents' assimilated lifestyle; he and his sister attending high school; active participation in a small communist group; attending medical school in 1937; Hlinka guard expelling Jewish students in 1938; working in forestry, then as a journalist for an illegal communist magazine; enrolling in law school; expulsion in 1941; draft into a forced labor group; postings in Čemerné, Liptovský Hrádok, then Svätý Jur; obtaining false papers with assistance from non-Jews; escaping to Banská Bystrica; returning to Bratislava in fall 1943; meeting his future wife; living with his parents; working as a non-Jew; his mother's death from cancer in April 1944; arrest and imprisonment in August; transfer to Sered in January 1945; humiliating slave labor cleaning Gestapo headquarters; transfer to Theresienstadt in March; and liberation by Soviet troops in May. Mr. Z. notes his father and his wife's parents were deported and killed, but his sister (she was married to a non-Jew) and brother (he was a partisan) survived. He discusses activities of his communist group.
Extent and Medium
3 videocassettes
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Process Info
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People
- Z., Ladislav, -- 1919-
Corporate Bodies
- Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
- Sered (Concentration camp)
- Hlinkova slovenská l̕udová strana.
Subjects
- Escapes.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Slovak.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Hlinka guard.
- Men.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Forced labor.
- Hiding.
- False papers.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Hungary.
- Budapest (Hungary)
- Trnava (Slovakia)
- Bratislava (Slovakia)
- Banská Bystrica (Slovakia)
- Liptovský Hrádok (Slovakia)
- Svätý Jur (Slovakia)
- Čemerné (Slovakia)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat