Margit F. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Margit F., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1929. She recounts living in Tolcsva; her family's orthodoxy; antisemitic harassment; attending Jewish schools locally and in Budapest; her father's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1943; his return; ghettoization in Sa?toraljau?jhely in 1944; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her parents; her father being beaten when he left the line to bless her; remaining with an aunt and her aunt's sister-in-law; their transfer to Krako?w; slave labor in a quarry; assistance from her aunt; the shooting of every tenth prisoner; transfer back to Auschwitz, then to Gru?nberg; slave labor in a munitions factory; a death march to Bergen-Belsen; becoming ill; her relatives' deaths; liberation by British troops; assistance from the Red Cross; being injured in an accident; hospitalization; transfer to Sweden; learning her mother and father had been killed; and emigration to the United States in August 1947 to join relatives. Ms. F. discusses her religious faith and its importance to her survival; visiting Hungary with her family in 1972; speaking in schools; and nightmares resulting from her experiences.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Process Info
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People
- F., Margit, -- 1929-
Corporate Bodies
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
Subjects
- Postwar effects.
- Postwar experiences.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Child survivors.
- Mutual aid.
- Mass killings.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Concentration camp inmates -- Family relationships.
- Nightmares.
- Death marches.
- Forced labor.
- Jews -- Hungary -- Sátoraljaújhely.
- Faith.
- Quarries and quarrying.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
Places
- Kraków (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Grünberg (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Budapest (Hungary)
- Tolcsva (Hungary)
- Sweden.
- Sátoraljaújhely ghetto.
- Hungary.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat