Edith W. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Edith W., who was born in Balka?ny, Hungary in 1931. She recounts her father's rabbinical position in several towns in Czechoslovakia including Jels?ava; anti-Jewish laws including expulsion from their town after Hungarian occupation; living in Rejc?kov; the births of several siblings; exclusion from school; deportations; her family's exemption because other exempted Jews needed a rabbi; deportation of her grandmother in 1942; her mother obtaining Hungarian passports for them; her mother smuggling a younger brother to relatives in Hungary (he did not survive); moving to Pres?ov in 1943; obtaining false papers; traveling to Banska? Stiavnica in summer 1944; staying with friends, then being hidden by a non-Jew in a nearby village; pretending to be Protestants; liberation in spring 1945; returning to their village; and emigrating to join relatives in the United States in August 1946. Mrs. W. discusses her belief that they survived because of miracles; their efforts to remain observant despite the dangers; the stress and constant fear of exposure; sharing her story with her children at the second Seder every year; and a 1987 trip to the village where they were hidden.

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