Anna R. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Anna R., who was born in Rajka, Hungary in 1931. She recalls her family's orthodoxy; attending a Catholic school (there was no Jewish school); being taken to a ghetto in March 1944; transfer a month later to the Gyo?r ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz two months later; remaining with her sister (she never saw her parents again); being told by a prisoner to say she was sixteen; separation from her sister; forced labor; seeing her sister once; transfer to Gebhardsdorf; receiving extra food from a camp official; a forced march to Georgenthal in February; forced factory labor; Allied bombings; liberation by Soviet troops on May 9, 1945; traveling to Budapest; returning home; reunion with her brother; learning a year later her sister was alive; antisemitic discrimination; six months imprisonment for an escape attempt in 1950; marriage in 1951; escaping during the 1956 uprising; and emigration with her family and siblings to the United States.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette
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
- R., Anna, -- 1931-
Corporate Bodies
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Antisemitism -- Postwar.
- Postwar experiences.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Child survivors.
- Sisters.
- Forced labor.
- Jews -- Hungary -- GyoĚr.
- Jewish ghettos.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Hungary.
- Georgenthal (Germany: Concentration camp)
- Gebhardsdorf (Germany : Concentration camp)
- GyoĚr ghetto.
- Hungary -- History -- Revolution, 1956 -- Personal narratives.
- Budapest (Hungary)
- Rajka (Hungary)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat