Milan S. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 4212
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Milan S., a Romani, who was born in Jelšava, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia). He recalls providing information about Hlinka guard movements to partisans; arrest with others; deportation to Komárno; transfer ten weeks later to Dachau; being marked as a partisan; slave labor in an airplane factory; a guard killing a Jewish prisoner for not working; meeting Romanies from throughout Europe; transfer two weeks later to Hamburg; shootings of Romani friends; placement in barracks with Jews; little communication among ethnic and national groups; one German giving him extra bread; liberation by British troops; assistance from the Red Cross; walking from Žilina to Košice en route home; arrival in spring 1945; recuperating in bed for a year; military service starting in 1947; sharing his story with his children; and never receiving compensation or reparation payments.

Extent and Medium

1 videocassette

Conditions Governing Access

This testimony can only be viewed at Yale by Yale faculty and/or students.

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

  • S., Milan.

Corporate Bodies

  • Hlinkova slovenská l̕udová strana.
  • International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
  • Dachau (Concentration camp)

Subjects

  • Romanies -- Nazi persecution -- Slovakia.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Romani.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Slovak.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • Men.
  • Video tapes.
  • Concentration camp inmates.
  • Partisans.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Postwar effects.
  • Aid by non-Romanies.
  • Romanies -- Slovakia -- History -- 20th century.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Slovakia.
  • Forced labor.
  • Concentration camps -- Sociological aspects.

Places

  • Žilina (Slovakia)
  • Košice (Slovakia)
  • Hamburg (Germany : Concentration camp)
  • Czechoslovakia.
  • Jelšava (Slovakia)
  • Komárno (Západoslovenský kraj, Slovakia)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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