Margo S. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 0605
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Margo S., who was born in Debrecen, Hungary in approximately 1930, one of four children. She recounts antisemitic harassment; her brother's draft into a forced labor battalion; German invasion in 1944; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; her father's deportation; round-up to a brick factory; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her mother and sister; remaining with another sister; their separation; volunteering to move corpses to join her sister; their transfer to Allendorf; slave labor in a munitions factory; sabotaging a bomb so it would not detonate; a death march; abandonment by guards; liberation by United States troops; learning her father had not survived; living in Cham; marriage; her son's birth; emigration to the United States in 1948; her uncle giving her postcards from her father; and returning to Hungary to erect a gravestone for her grandmother and a monument for her relatives who had been killed. Ms. S. discusses pervasive painful memories and seldom sharing her experiences, particularly not with her children. She shows documents, objects, and photographs.

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. This testimony can only be used for educational purposes.

Rules and Conventions

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Process Info

  • compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

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