Jennie A. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 0498
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Jennie A., who was born in Czechoslovakia in approximately 1915. She recounts her mother's death when she was three; living with an aunt; working for a dressmaker; Hungarian occupation; forced agricultural labor; deportation with her aunt to the Uz?h?horod ghetto in 1944; their deportation to Auschwitz; sharing extra food with her aunt and a child from her town; separation from her aunt; transfer to Z?migro?d; slave labor digging trenches; receiving extra food from a German solider; a death march to Gross-Rosen; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; taking bread from a dying prisoner; liberation; hospitalization; Red Cross transfer to Sigtuna, Sweden, then Go?teborg; convalescing; hearing from her brother and sister; and emigrating to the United States. Ms. A. discusses health problems and nightmares resulting from her experiences.

Extent and Medium

2 videocassettes

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

  • A., Jennie, -- 1915?-

Corporate Bodies

  • Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp)
  • Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
  • Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
  • International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.

Subjects

  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Concentration camp inmates -- Family relationships.
  • Jews -- Ukraine -- Uz︠h︡horod.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • Forced labor.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • Women.
  • Video tapes.
  • Postwar effects.
  • Aid by non-Jews.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Hungarian occupation.
  • Mutual aid.
  • Death marches.
  • Nightmares.

Places

  • Ungvár ghetto.
  • Sigtuna (Sweden)
  • Göteborg (Sweden)
  • Czechoslovakia.
  • Żmigród (Poland)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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