Erika M. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Erika M., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1922. She recalls her family's orthodoxy; her brother attending medical school; the Anschluss; her brother's expulsion from school; former friends turning on them; her parents leaving for Czechoslovakia; remaining with her brother; smuggling themselves to join their parents in Trenc?iansky; marriage in 1939; a futile attempt to emigrate with her husband from Bratislava to Palestine in June 1940; her husband's complying with a deportation notice (she never saw him again); rejoining her family; entering Nova?ky; meeting her future husband; liberation during the Slovak uprising; living with her parents and brother on a farm; joining her fiance? in Hartmanice; retreating into the mountains in October; assistance from local Slovaks; hiding in bunkers; liberation by Soviet partisans in March 1945; crossing the mountains to Soviet-liberated areas; her fianc ?working in the hospital in Topol?c?any; her daughter's birth and death two days later; reunion with her brother (her parents had been deported and perished); living in Litome?r?ice; illegally leaving for Vienna in 1949; emigration to the United States; and her daughter's birth in 1954. Ms. M. notes her husband's recent death.

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