Holdings Information
Bibliographic Record Display
-
Author/Creator:L., Olga, 1921-
-
Title:Olga L. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3679) [videorecording] / interviewed by Peter Salner and Ingrid Antalová, May 22 and June 23, 1995.
-
Published/Created:Bratislava, Slovakia : Milan Šimečka Foundation, 1995.
-
Physical Description:2 videorecordings (3 hr., 5 min., and 3 hr., 17 min.) : col.
-
Yale Holdings
Holdings Record Display
-
Location:LSF-Physical copy for request by library staff only
-
Call Number: MS 1322
-
Status:Not Checked Out
-
Digital testimony (mssa.hvt.3679)
For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
-
Location:LSF-Physical copy for request by library staff only
-
Notes:Associated material: Lorinczova, Olga. Interview 27826. Visual History Archive, USC Shoah Foundation. Access at https://vha.usc.edu.
This testimony is in Slovak.
3 copies: Betacam SP dub; 1/2 in. VHS dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
-
Summary:Videotape testimony of Olga L., who was born in Lučenec, Czechoslovakia in 1921. She recalls three much older siblings and one younger brother; a very happy childhood; living in Filakovo; attending school in Lučenec; her sister's marriage; moving back to Lučenec in 1936; Hungarian occupation; meeting her future husband in a sewing workshop; her brother's and fiancé's draft into Hungarian slave labor battalions; visiting her fiancé in Rimavská Sobota; marriage in December 1943 when her fiancé was released; his recall; ghettoization; her father's refusal to escape; her sister (who was in Banská Bystrica) arranging for her escape; hiding with non-Jewish friends; learning the ghetto had been liquidated (she never saw her brother or parents again); a non-Jew bringing her to Banská Bystrica; her sister obtaining false papers for her; working as a child care provider for a wealthy family in Poprad; staying in Starý Smokovec with the child; returning to Banská Bystrica to join her husband; joining the uprising; escaping during German attack; separation from her husband (she never saw him again); being hidden in several villages as a partisan, not a Jew; billeting of German and Hungarian officers where she stayed; and liberation by Soviet troops.
- Format:Archives or Manuscripts
-
Cite as:Olga L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3679). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
-
Subjects:L., Olga, 1921-
Holocaust survivors.
Video tapes.
Women.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
Jewish ghettos.
Jews--Slovakia--Lučenec.
Escapes.
Husband and wife.
Sisters.
World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Slovakia.
Lučenec (Slovakia)
Filakovo (Slovakia)
Banská Bystrica (Slovakia)
Starý Smokovec (Slovakia)
Rimavská Sobota (Slovakia)
Poprad (Slovakia)
Czechoslovakia.
-
Subjects (Local Yale):Husband--Death.
Partisans.
False papers.
Hiding.
Aid by non-Jews.
Mutual aid.
Hungarian occupation.
Lučenec ghetto.
-
Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
-
Also listed under:Salner, Peter, 1951- interviewer.
Antalová, Ingrid, interviewer.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4318224