Susan M. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Susan M., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1925. She describes her happy childhood as a performer in a successful children's theatre; her parent's divorce; her rejection from the art academy due to the Jewish quota; the nonchalant attitude of the Jewish community until the German occupation in 1944; anti-Semitic legislation; hiding with her father with the aid of his non-Jewish fiancee; the establishment of the ghetto; and the reign of the Hungarian Gestapo. She relates working as a nurse while hiding on false papers; being recognized by a non-Jewish friend who turned her over to the Hungarian Gestapo; being jailed, beaten, threatened with execution and torture; friendship with a fellow prisoner who was affiliated with the Swedish Red Cross and their subsequent escape; hiding in her father's house; searching for her mother after the ghetto had been bombed; and the Soviet liberation. Mrs. M. remembers meeting her husband and emigration to the United States. She reflects upon the qualities of her memories; her relationship with her children; and her feelings about fate and self-determination.

2 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)