Stefan D. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Stefan D., a Catholic Romani, who was born in Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1934. He recalls Hlinka guards destroying their homes; living in a forest; continuing to attend school; the local population being blamed when partisans blew up a bridge near their village; deportation with his mother to Prešov, then Dubnica, a concentration camp for Romanies; his mother giving birth in the train; separation of the women from the children; seeing his mother an hour a day; crowding and very poor hygiene; sparse food rations leading to high death rates, particularly among the children; liberation by partisans and Soviet troops four months later in April 1945; Soviet planes attacking Germans, shooting at them when they left; and the three-week journey walking home.
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
- D., Stefan, -- 1934-
Corporate Bodies
- Hlinkova slovenská l̕udová strana.
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Slovakia.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Childbirth.
- Mothers and sons.
- Partisans.
- Child survivors.
- Men.
- Video tapes.
- Romanies -- Nazi persecution -- Slovakia.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Slovak.
- Romanies -- Slovakia -- History -- 20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Romani.
Places
- Czechoslovakia.
- Dubnica (Slovakia : Concentration camp)
- Prešov (Slovakia)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat