Agnes V. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Agnes V., who was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1940. She describes her father's cosmopolitan, professional background; her mother's rural, extremely observant background; life in a wealthy Budapest Jewish family; and deportations of relatives to Hungarian labor battalions. She recalls her father's decision to disperse the family in hiding after the 1944 German occupation; posing as a Christian peasant girl; living with her younger sister in a dilapidated section of Budapest; an air raid in which her guardian was wounded; traveling with her guardian to rejoin her mother; German round-ups of Jews; hiding with other Jewish children in the former residence of the mayor of Buda; and the brutal fighting. Mrs. V. recounts a chance reunion with her mother; seeking refuge with a Calvinist pastor who produced false papers; a dream foretelling her grandmother's killing; liberation of Budapest; her father's postwar imprisonment for "Zionist" activities; escape to Vienna during the 1956 Hungarian revolution; and life in the United States.

2 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)