Clara S. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Clara S., who was born in Uz?h?horod, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine). She recalls her father's Zionist beliefs; attending a Zionist Hebrew school; Hungarian occupation; her brother's emigration to Palestine in 1938; hiding in Budapest with her family in 1941; returning to Uz?horod; German occupation in 1944; ghettoization in a brick factory; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her family upon arrival; transfer to Ri?ga with her friends; slave labor on a farm; recovering from typhus with assistance from her friend's sister; transfer to Stutthof in December 1944, then by boat to a labor camp in Germany; disappearance of German guards during a death march; and liberation by Soviet troops. Mrs. S. recounts traveling to Warsaw, hospitalization; returning to Uz?h?horod; learning of her parents' death; marriage in 1945; contacting her brother; and emigration to the United States. She discusses building a new life; reluctance to share her experiences with her children when they were young; and her feeling that having children and grandchildren gives her a sense of victory over Hitler.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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
- S., Clara.
Corporate Bodies
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Stutthof (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Survivor-child relations.
- Mutual aid.
- Postwar experiences.
- Hungarian occupation.
- Hiding.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Death marches.
- Jews -- Ukraine -- Uz︠h︡horod.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Forced labor.
Places
- Rīga (Latvia : Concentration camp)
- Ungvár ghetto.
- Budapest (Hungary)
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Czechoslovakia.
- Uz︠h︡horod (Ukraine)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat