The Grandmother Who Sniped 83 SS Guards From the Attic Above the Deportation Yard
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In April 1942, an SS Sturmbannführer walked onto a railway platform in central Slovakia and lit a cigarette in full view of the town, certain that no one would dare fire on him. Six hours earlier he'd been told six of his men were already dead. He was wrong about the cigarette. He became number seven.
This documentary tells the untold story of a sixty-six-year-old grandmother who, from the attic dormer of her murdered friend's house, killed eighty-three SS guards in three days above the deportation yard at Rimavská Ves — and then vanished across the rooftops dressed as a nun. While the SS hunted for a trained male sniper across three provinces, the shooter was a widow with her dead husband's hunting rifle, a strip of linen for a wind flag, and thirty years of practice in the beech woods.
Discover how one woman turned a rail yard into a killing ground the German occupation could not solve — using a linen wind flag, three rotating firing positions, a concealed attic ladder, and a chimney sweep's map of the loose roof tiles — all to answer the one sin she refused to commit: silence.
🔥 In this video:
The Flag on the Pole: How a strip of linen and three chalk marks let a widow read the wind at 340 meters.
The Husband's Rifle: The 1903 Mannlicher-Schoenauer bought in Vienna that outlived the man who carried it.
Three Dormers, Three Days: The rotating firing positions that convinced the SS there were three shooters, not one.
The Cigarette: Why the ranking SS officer's show of contempt made him the seventh man to die.
The Ghost of Rimavská Ves: How a 66-year-old grandmother crossed the rooftops, put on a nun's habit, and disappeared into the mountains — never once entered in any record.
Sources of Where I get my facts:
Braham, R. L. (2016) The Geographical Encyclopedia of the Holocaust in Hungary. Evanston: Northwestern University Press.
Fatran, G. (1994) 'The Struggle for Jewish Survival During the Holocaust in Slovakia', Yad Vashem Studies, 23, pp. 173–201.
Ward, J. (2013) Priest, Politician, Collaborator: Jozef Tiso and the Making of Fascist Slovakia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Bauer, Y. (2002) Rethinking the Holocaust. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Jelinek, Y. A. (1976) The Parish Republic: Hlinka's Slovak People's Party 1939–1945. New York: Columbia University Press.
Disclaimer: This video is a historical documentary intended for educational purposes.
#WW2History #ResistanceHeroes #MilitaryHistory #Holocaust #Slovakia #WW2 #SniperHistory #WomenInWar #NaziOccupation #History
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. She only knew that she had lost her husband, her country was at war and she had to come forward to play her part in its war by using the skill she had learnt to the greatest advantage against her enemies.She was the simplest person and never wanted fame for her impossible feat but was satisfied at a job well done.
The Grandmother Who Sniped 83 SS Guards From the Attic Above the Deportation Yard
Canadian War Stories
187,365 views
#WW2History #ResistanceHeroes #MilitaryHistory
In April 1942, an SS Sturmbannführer walked onto a railway platform in central Slovakia and lit a cigarette in full view of the town, certain that no one would dare fire on him. Six hours earlier he'd been told six of his men were already dead. He was wrong about the cigarette. He became number seven.
This documentary tells the untold story of a sixty-six-year-old grandmother who, from the attic dormer of her murdered friend's house, killed eighty-three SS guards in three days above the deportation yard at Rimavská Ves — and then vanished across the rooftops dressed as a nun. While the SS hunted for a trained male sniper across three provinces, the shooter was a widow with her dead husband's hunting rifle, a strip of linen for a wind flag, and thirty years of practice in the beech woods.
Discover how one woman turned a rail yard into a killing ground the German occupation could not solve — using a linen wind flag, three rotating firing positions, a concealed attic ladder, and a chimney sweep's map of the loose roof tiles — all to answer the one sin she refused to commit: silence.
🔥 In this video:
The Flag on the Pole: How a strip of linen and three chalk marks let a widow read the wind at 340 meters.
The Husband's Rifle: The 1903 Mannlicher-Schoenauer bought in Vienna that outlived the man who carried it.
Three Dormers, Three Days: The rotating firing positions that convinced the SS there were three shooters, not one.
The Cigarette: Why the ranking SS officer's show of contempt made him the seventh man to die.
The Ghost of Rimavská Ves: How a 66-year-old grandmother crossed the rooftops, put on a nun's habit, and disappeared into the mountains — never once entered in any record.
Sources of Where I get my facts:
Braham, R. L. (2016) The Geographical Encyclopedia of the Holocaust in Hungary. Evanston: Northwestern University Press.
Fatran, G. (1994) 'The Struggle for Jewish Survival During the Holocaust in Slovakia', Yad Vashem Studies, 23, pp. 173–201.
Ward, J. (2013) Priest, Politician, Collaborator: Jozef Tiso and the Making of Fascist Slovakia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Bauer, Y. (2002) Rethinking the Holocaust. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Jelinek, Y. A. (1976) The Parish Republic: Hlinka's Slovak People's Party 1939–1945. New York: Columbia University Press.
Disclaimer: This video is a historical documentary intended for educational purposes.
#WW2History #ResistanceHeroes #MilitaryHistory #Holocaust #Slovakia #WW2 #SniperHistory #WomenInWar #NaziOccupation #History