BRANISLV OLAH
The interview was recorded at the community center in Detva, where Mr. Branislav Olah works as a field worker. Mr. Olah’s family, rooted in Detva for over 200 years, has a profound history of resistance. His grandfather, a musician and blacksmith, joined the partisans with his brothers. Following the Slovak National Uprising, two brothers were captured and likely sent to Mauthausen, where one perished. Other relatives also aided partisans. This resistance had devastating consequences; in 1944, after being reported, most of the men were murdered in Zvolen as suspected partisans. Mr. Oláh is now documenting these harrowing experiences in a book about the Roma Holocaust.
