Unseen documentaries found concerning Slovak concentration camp victims

Three new documentaries have appeared concerning children and young people who lived through the Holocaust in Slovakia during WWII. As reported in the Tuesday edition of the Pravda daily, the documentaries focus on the period shortly before the beginning of the deportations to the death camps and during the first and second deportation waves. Director of the Holocaust Museum in Sered (Trnava region) and founder of the Edah civil association Martin Korčok held interviews with around 130-140 Holocaust survivors over a period of thirteen years. The new documentaries draw on these conversations. The films were all directed by Rado Dubravsky and deal with the stories of 39 people, including, for example, the Feldmannova sisters, who were sent to Great Britain by their parents before WWII and so escaped the fate of many of their contemporaries. Another survivor featured is Edita Grosmanová, who was on the first transport to be sent from Slovakia to Auschwitz in 1942, while the story of Jozef Cipin, who spent time in concentration camps in Novaky (now the Trenčín region), Sered and Theresienstadt (now in the Czech Republic), is also covered. The films were put together via cooperation between the Holocaust Museum in Sered and Edah, and will be used mainly to educate young people visiting the museum.