Judit G. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Judit G., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1930. She recalls her family's orthodoxy; attending a Jewish school; being sent to the country in 1943 with her younger brother to avoid bombings; their return in January 1944 for their sister's wedding; German invasion; anti-Jewish regulations; forced relocation; her father obtaining places for all of them on the Kasztner train; stopping at Linz; arrival at Bergen-Belsen; separation from the other prisoners; not having to work; apathy due to starvation; praying and fasting on Yom Kippur; transfer after six months to Celerina, Switzerland; her nephew's birth; assistance from the Red Cross; attending a boarding school with her brother near Saint Moritz; returning to Budapest with their family after the war; learning many relatives had been killed; her brother being sent to a yeshiva in England in 1947; marriage in 1948; illegally entering Vienna; her parent's emigration to Israel; her child's birth; her parents joining them in 1954; emigration to the United States in 1957; returning to Vienna; and permanently moving to the U.S. in 1961. Ms. G. notes maintaining her belief in God and sharing only parts of her story with her children.
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
- Kasztner, RezsoĚ Rudolf, -- 1906-1957.
- G., Judit, -- 1930-
Corporate Bodies
- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Survivor-child relations.
- Faith.
- Child survivors.
- Postwar experiences.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Rescue.
- Family.
- Concentration camps -- Psychological aspects.
- Concentration camp inmates -- Religious life.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
Places
- Celerina (Switzerland)
- Linz (Austria)
- Vienna (Austria)
- Saint Moritz (Switzerland)
- Budapest (Hungary)
- Hungary.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat