Agnes S. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Agnes S., who was born in Budapest in 1925. She speaks of the German occupation of Budapest; of her work as a slave laborer in a mill in Budapest; deportations from the brick factory in which she and her mother were interned, but from which they were spared through the intervention of Raoul Wallenberg; their internment in the ghetto of Budapest in December, 1944 and liberation there in January 1945; the illegal departure of herself, her husband, and her son from communist Hungary in 1949 and their emigration to the United States in 1956. The physical and psychological effects of her wartime experiences and wartime resistance in Hungary are also discussed.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette (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
- S., Agnes, -- 1925-
- Wallenberg, Raoul, -- 1912-1947.
Subjects
- Video tapes.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Holocaust survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue.
- Jews -- Hungary -- Budapest.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- Aid by non-Jews.
Places
- Budapest ghetto.
- Budapest (Hungary)
- Hungary.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- ftamc