Laura G. Holocaust Testimony

Videotape testimony of Laura G., who was born in Michalovce, Czechoslovakia in 1917, one of ten children. She recalls her comfortable, orthodox childhood; moving to Prague in 1937 to learn dressmaking; returning home in 1938; German occupation; antisemitic restrictions; illegally entering Hungary in 1942; staying with relatives in Uz?h?horod, Seredne, and Mukacheve; obtaining false papers; living in Budapest as a non-Jew; joining her family in Liptovsky? Mikula?s?; moving to Poruba; hiding with other Jews in bunkers in the Tatra Mountains; raids by Hlinka Guards; relocating to Hra?dok; arrest with her family in January 1945; imprisonment in Liptovsky? Mikula?s?; transfer to Sered;? seeing her father for the last time; deportation with her mother and sister to Ravensbru?ck; forced labor for Siemens; her mother's death; transfer with her sister to Bergen-Belsen; assistance from a kind block leader; good relations with non-Jewish prisoners; contracting typhus; liberation by British troops; convalescing with her sister in Malmo? and Go?teborg, Sweden; learning her father and four sisters had perished; visiting her surviving siblings in Michalovce; emigration to the United States; and marriage to a survivor. Mrs. G. discusses lingering sadness; her guilt that she survived when so many family members were killed; and reluctance to share her story with her children.

3 videocassettes