Klara K. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Klara K., who was born in U?jpest (IV. Keru?let), Hungary, a Budapest suburb. She recalls entrance quotas for Jews for educational institutions; attending a Jewish school in Budapest; her father's conscription into a forced labor battalion (he did not survive); German occupation in spring 1944; obtaining false identity papers; living with a family as a non-Jew in Ra?kospalota (XV. Keru?let); joining her mother and siblings in Ko?ba?nya (X. Keru?let) due to fear of exposure; changing their hiding place after their safety became compromised; liberation by Soviet troops; returning to U?jpest; living in Nyi?regyha?za for one summer; her nervous breakdown; membership in Deror; advanced studies in chemistry; marriage to a Catholic in 1951; promising to raise her children as Catholics to protect them from antisemitism; moving to East Germany; emigrating to Canada during the 1956 Hungarian uprising; and moving to the United States. Mrs. K. discusses psychological issues raised in her hidden children's group and regrets that her children are not Jewish. She shows photographs throughout the testimony.
Extent and Medium
2 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
- K., Klara, ca. 1930-
Corporate Bodies
- Deror (Organization : Hungary)
- Hidden Child Foundation/ADL.
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- False papers.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Child survivors.
- Postwar experiences.
- Postwar effects.
- Hiding.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Interfaith marriage.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Brothers and sisters.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Sisters.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Survivor-child relations.
Places
- Hungary.
- Nyíregyháza (Hungary)
- XV. Kerület (Budapest, Hungary)
- Kőbánya (Budapest, Hungary)
- Budapest (Hungary)
- IV. Kerület (Budapest, Hungary)
- Újpest (Budapest, Hungary)
- Rákospalota (Budapest, Hungary)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat