Номер объектаM2005/021:001
ОписаниеMaroon scarf belonging to Miki (Mikulas) Dym, who joined the partisans in Slovakia. After the collapse of the National Uprising in October 1944, he went into hiding. He was murdered by a mobile SS killing squad in Nemecká, Slovakia, on 9 January 1945.
Miki Dym was born on 13 September 1920 in Sered, Czechoslovakia and attended the local Jewish primary school followed by high school (gymnasium) in Trnava. In 1941 the Slovak parliament passed the ‘Jewish Codex’, antisemitic laws covering all aspects of the lives of Jewish citizens of Slovakia. One of the first acts taken under the new law was the establishment of a forced labour camp at Hiadel. Jewish men from Sered were forced into that camp, including Miki and his father. Then in 1942, Miki and his parents, two sisters and brother-in-law were sent to Sered concentration camp. He spent 2 and a half years in the camp doing forced labour.
On 29 August 1944 a national uprising broke out in Slovakia against the fascist regime. The guards fled the camp; Miki and his younger sister Eva attached themselves to a group of partisans. They reached Banska Bystrica, central Slovakia, the focal point of the uprising. Stationed in a village called Spania Dolina, the group undertook attacks against the German army which had been brought in to assist the Slovak Government suppress the uprising.
On 28 October 1944 the uprising was ended and fighters dispersed. Non-Jewish partisans returned to their homes. By this time most of the Jewish population of Slovakia had been deported to death camps and their homes had been confiscated. Consequently, the Jewish partisans had nowhere to go. Miki and Eva along and other Jewish members of the group took refuge in the Tatra Mountains. By this time it was November, and bitterly cold. Miki suffered frostbite and developed pneumonia. Eva persuaded someone in the village to transport Miki to hospital. Eva went to Bratislava and discovered that her parents had been deported to Auschwitz. She joined the underground resistance in Bratislava. She never saw her brother again. In 1992, she learned that he had been taken from the hospital on 9 December 1944, imprisoned until 9 January 1945, and was killed at Nemecka near Banska Bystrica during a series of mass killings in which approximately 900 persons were murdered between January 5th and January 11th 1945, with the Germans and members of the Slovak Hlinka Guard taking part. Eva was caught by the Gestapo, deported to Theresienstadt, and liberated there. She later immigrated to Australia.
Miki Dym was born on 13 September 1920 in Sered, Czechoslovakia and attended the local Jewish primary school followed by high school (gymnasium) in Trnava. In 1941 the Slovak parliament passed the ‘Jewish Codex’, antisemitic laws covering all aspects of the lives of Jewish citizens of Slovakia. One of the first acts taken under the new law was the establishment of a forced labour camp at Hiadel. Jewish men from Sered were forced into that camp, including Miki and his father. Then in 1942, Miki and his parents, two sisters and brother-in-law were sent to Sered concentration camp. He spent 2 and a half years in the camp doing forced labour.
On 29 August 1944 a national uprising broke out in Slovakia against the fascist regime. The guards fled the camp; Miki and his younger sister Eva attached themselves to a group of partisans. They reached Banska Bystrica, central Slovakia, the focal point of the uprising. Stationed in a village called Spania Dolina, the group undertook attacks against the German army which had been brought in to assist the Slovak Government suppress the uprising.
On 28 October 1944 the uprising was ended and fighters dispersed. Non-Jewish partisans returned to their homes. By this time most of the Jewish population of Slovakia had been deported to death camps and their homes had been confiscated. Consequently, the Jewish partisans had nowhere to go. Miki and Eva along and other Jewish members of the group took refuge in the Tatra Mountains. By this time it was November, and bitterly cold. Miki suffered frostbite and developed pneumonia. Eva persuaded someone in the village to transport Miki to hospital. Eva went to Bratislava and discovered that her parents had been deported to Auschwitz. She joined the underground resistance in Bratislava. She never saw her brother again. In 1992, she learned that he had been taken from the hospital on 9 December 1944, imprisoned until 9 January 1945, and was killed at Nemecka near Banska Bystrica during a series of mass killings in which approximately 900 persons were murdered between January 5th and January 11th 1945, with the Germans and members of the Slovak Hlinka Guard taking part. Eva was caught by the Gestapo, deported to Theresienstadt, and liberated there. She later immigrated to Australia.
Темаclothing, partisans, resistance
Наименованиеscarfs
Материалwool
Размерность
- width: 210.00 mm
length: 1090.00 mm
Кредитная линияSydney Jewish Museum Collection