Helen F. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Helen F., who was born in approximately 1930 in Cra?ciunes?ti, Romania, an only child. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; a happy childhood; attending theater in Sighet; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; her father's trip to Kos?ice in 1944 (she never saw him again); transfer to a ghetto in April; deportation to Auschwitz in May; separation from her mother (she never saw her again); crying all the time; losing her belief in God; smuggling herself to her cousins' block; transfer a month later with four friends to a camp in Germany; slave labor in a munitions factory, then digging trenches; a back injury from which she still suffers; a beating by the guards; train transport; Allied bombings; a Wehrmacht soldier assisting her wounded friend; a death march; liberation by British troops; returning home via Bratislava and Budapest; threats from non-Jewish neighbors living in her home; living with cousins in Velykyy Bychkiv; moving to Germany in 1946; marriage; living in Frankfurt; and emigration to the United States in 1949. Ms. F. notes not sharing her experiences until a 1981 survivor gathering in Jerusalem; sharing her experiences with her son; pervasive painful memories; health problems resulting from the camps; and re-attaining her belief in God.

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