Elizabeth F. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Elizabeth F., who was born in Czechoslovakia near the Hungarian border. She describes her family's life during the four years of Hungarian occupation; their evacuation to the ghetto at Sa?toraljau?jhely in the spring of 1944; and her deportation, along with her three sisters, to Auschwitz one month later. She tells how the four sisters, by helping each other, managed to survive the concentration and slave labor camps of Auschwitz, Weisswasser, Horneburg, and Bergen-Belsen.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)
Conditions Governing Access
This testimony is open with permission.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.
Rules and Conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- F., Elizabeth.
Corporate Bodies
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Sisters.
- Hungarian occupation.
- Forced labor.
- Jews -- Hungary -- Sátoraljaújhely.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Jewish ghettos.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Brothers and sisters.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
Places
- Czechoslovakia.
- Sátoraljaújhely ghetto.
- Weisswasser (Czechoslovakia : Concentration camp)
- Horneburg (Germany : Concentration camp)
- Hungary.
- Sátoraljaújhely (Hungary)
- Horneburg (Germany)
- Bělá pod Bezdězem (Slovakia)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- ftamc