Adrienne K. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Adrienne K., who was born in Cluj, Romania in 1923. This testimony includes virtually all of the information in an earlier interview (HVT-199). Additional topics discussed include her pain at learning details of the killing process at Auschwitz, where her family perished; detailed descriptions of the work she did there in a munitions factory and the camp "hospital"; and hiding in the hospital while ill with typhus to avoid deportation to a death camp. She tells of her postwar position as administrator of a hospital in Waldenburg (Wa?brzych); her return to her home town; her marriage; the birth of her first child in 1947; and the completion of her medical education in 1958. She recounts emigrating to Israel in 1959; her move to the United States in 1961; and her career development and family changes since then. She also speaks of becoming more open about her wartime experiences and her upcoming visit to Auschwitz.
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
- K., Adrienne, -- 1923-
Corporate Bodies
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Altenburg (Concentration camp : Thuringia, Germany)
- RavensbruĚck (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Psychological aspects.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Forced labor.
- Friendship.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- War crime trials -- Germany -- Frankfurt.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Hungarian occupation.
Places
- WaĹbrzych (Poland)
- Budapest (Hungary)
- Israel.
- Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
- Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
- Romania.
- Tachau (Czechoslovakia : Concentration camp)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- ftamc