Fanny K. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Fanny K., who was born in Pilipets, Czechoslovakia in 1922. She recalls her father traveling as a shochet; many older brothers and sisters; Hungarian occupation; her brothers' draft into Hungarian labor battalions; regulations forbidding Jews to run stores; helping her sister secretly run a store; brief arrest; hiding with relatives in another town; returning home and hiding; ghettoization; a forced march to Khust; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from everyone but one sister; seeing her brother once from a distance; slave labor in a weaving mill; attempting to observe Yom Kippur; a death march and train transport to Bergen-Belsen; liberation by British troops; hospitalization; her sister's death; Red Cross transfer to Go?teborg, Sweden; learning a brother was alive; reunion with him in Prague; meeting her future husband; and emigration to the United States. Ms. K. notes seldom discussing her experiences, even with her brother, because it is too painful.

2 videocassettes