Judith H. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Judith H., who was born in a small village in Czechoslovakia in 1924. She recalls being the only higher class family there; antisemitism; living with her grandparents to attend school in Pres?ov; Hungarian occupation; attending school in Budapest; learning of Jewish persecutions in Slovakia (her grandparents were deported and perished in Majdanek); her brother joining her in 1943; German invasion in March 1944; an unsuccessful attempt to return home with her brother; her depression upon learning her parents were deported (she never saw them again); living with her brother in buildings designated for Jews; reporting for forced labor in October 1944; separation from her brother; digging trenches; unsuccessful escape attempts during a forced march in November; acquiring a Swedish passport from Raoul Wallenberg, which later proved useless; forced labor in Kerecsend; mass killings near Eisenerz in April 1945; starvation and cannibalism in Mauthausen; a death march to Gunskirchen in May; and liberation by United States troops. Dr. H. describes walking to Sankt Po?lten; escaping to Vienna; reunion with her brother in Budapest; attending medical school; moving to Prague; emigration with her children to Sweden in 1966; and joining her husband in the United States in 1969.
Extent and Medium
2 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
- Wallenberg, Raoul, -- 1912-1947.
- H., Judith, -- 1924-
Corporate Bodies
- Gunskirchen (Concentration camp)
- Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Postwar experiences.
- Mass killings.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Concentration camps -- Psychological aspects.
- Death marches.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Cannibalism.
- Refugee camps.
- Hungarian occupation.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
Places
- Prague (Czech Republic)
- Sweden.
- Vienna (Austria)
- Sankt PoĚlten (Austria)
- Eisinerz (Austria : Concentration camp)
- Kerecsend (Hungary)
- Budapest (Hungary)
- PresĚov (Slovakia)
- Czechoslovakia.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat