Helen M. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Helen M., who was born in Kos?ice, Czechoslovakia, in 1922. She recalls the Hungarian occupation of 1938; anti-Semitic legislation; her escape with her sister across the Hungarian border to Slovakia in 1944; the experience of living and working under false papers; her flight to Bratislava to escape deportation; and her eventual arrest. Mrs. M. also describes her journey to Terezi?n; her vital relationship with her sister; their work regulating the showers in Terezi?n; their attempted escape; her postwar reunion with her father; and other details of her postwar life including her marriage and her children.
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
- M., Helen, -- 1922-
Corporate Bodies
- Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- False papers.
- Hungarian occupation.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Sisters.
- Hiding.
- Brothers and sisters.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
Places
- Bratislava (Slovakia)
- KosĚice (Slovakia)
- Czechoslovakia
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat