Edith G. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Edith G., who was born in Ungva?r, Czechoslovakia (presently Uz?h?horod, Ukraine) in 1929, the oldest of three children in an affluent family. She recounts Hungarian occupation; attending a Hungarian school; German occupation; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz six weeks later; separation from her parents and brothers; cousins hiding her during selections; transfer to Stutthof, then another camp; slave labor in a munitions factory; POWs sharing food with them from Red Cross packages; a death march; her cousins supporting her; escaping together; liberation by Soviet troops; assistance from Jewish-Soviet soldiers; traveling with her cousins to Warsaw, then a nearby displaced persons camp; returning home; learning her parents and brothers did not survive; traveling to Nagyvarad (Oradea), Khust, then Czechoslovakia; emigration to London to join her uncle; living briefly in a children's home, then with her uncle; visiting another uncle in the United States; marrying a childhood friend there; and the births of two daughters. Ms. G. discusses difficulties sharing her experiences with her daughters, and her continuing close relationships with her cousins, to whom she attributes her survival.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette
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
- G., Edith, -- 1929-
Corporate Bodies
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Stutthof (Concentration camp)
- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
Subjects
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Forced labor.
- Concentration camp inmates -- Family relationships.
- Jews -- Ukraine -- Uz︠h︡horod.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Refugee camps.
- Escapes.
- Death marches.
- Prisoners of war.
- Mutual aid.
- Hungarian occupation.
- Child survivors.
- Orphanages -- England.
- Postwar experiences.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Aid by non-Jews.
Places
- Khust (Ukraine)
- London (England)
- Ungvár ghetto.
- Czechoslovakia.
- Uz︠h︡horod (Ukraine)
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Oradea (Romania)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat