Susan T. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Susan T., who was born in Budapest, Hungary. She describes early edicts against Jews; continuous efforts to obtain American visas for her family; her husband's deportation to a labor camp near the Czech border in 1942, then to one in Russia in 1944; and life in the "open ghetto" in Budapest. She relates the German occupation of Hungary in March 1944; anti-Jewish legislation and increased deportations under Eichmann's supervision; restrictive conditions in German-occupied Budapest; the forced march to a brick factory outside Budapest; and the negotiation of the group's release by Raoul Wallenberg. She tells of the establishment of an "international ghetto" in Budapest; liberation by the Russians in January 1945; her husband's escape from a Russian prison camp; and their emigration to the United States in 1948.
Extent and Medium
3 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
- Wallenberg, Raoul, -- 1912-1947.
- T., Susan.
Subjects
- Safe houses.
- Aid by non-Jews
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Jews -- Hungary -- Budapest.
- Jewish ghettos.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue.
Places
- Budapest (Hungary)
- Hungary.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- ftamc