Cornelia S. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Cornelia S., who was born in a Hungarian village in 1915. She recalls life in the village and Budapest; attending boarding school in Budapest; marriage in 1937; the births of her sons in Novi Sad in 1938 and 1941; anti-Jewish measures; going to Budapest with her older son in 1942; learning her husband was killed in December; having her younger son brought to Budapest; German occupation; her arrest in Budapest (she never saw her mother and children again); transport to Kistarcsa, then Auschwitz; digging ditches in Birkenau; working in the Canada Kommando; assistance from a German officer at an I.G. Farben factory; sharing food with other prisoners; public hangings; the death march in January 1945; two weeks in Ravensbru?ck; camouflaging airplanes and digging trenches in Neustadt/Glewe; and liberation by Soviet troops. Mrs. S. recounts traveling to Neubrandenburg; a circuitous trip to Budapest; her second marriage; the birth of two sons; leaving Hungary in April 1949; living in the Rothschild Hospital displaced persons camp in Vienna; and emigrating to the United States seven years later. Mrs. S. discusses the almost complete loss of her large family; and trips to Budapest with her husband.

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