Mady D. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Mady D., who was born in Berehovo, Czechoslovakia in 1930. She recalls her close family; Hungarian occupation; German occupation in March 1944; ghettoization in April; deportation to Auschwitz two weeks later; separation from her father and brother; her mother's efforts to always stay with her; their transfer to Peterswaldau one week later; forced labor in an ammunition factory for almost a year; digging fox holes for German soldiers; her mother sharing her bread; disappearance of guards on May 8, 1945; arrival of Soviet troops; their return home; learning her father and brother had perished; convincing her mother not to commit suicide; traveling to Germany; living in the Pocking displaced persons camp; and emigration to the United States in 1949. Mrs. D. notes years of post war trauma and shows photographs.
Extent and Medium
3 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
- D., Mady, -- 1930-
Corporate Bodies
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Peterswaldau (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Jewish ghettos.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Refugee camps.
- Forced labor.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Jews -- Ukraine -- Berehove.
- Mutual aid.
- Postwar experiences.
- Child survivors.
- Hungarian occupation.
- Postwar effects.
Places
- Czechoslovakia.
- Berehove (Ukraine)
- Berehovo ghetto.
- Pocking (Passau, Germany : Refugee camp)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat