Zahava S. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 2640
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Zahava S. In addition to information included in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-301), Mrs. S. recounts her father's struggle to support the family after anti-Jewish restrictions resulted in confiscation of his business; a public hanging in the Kos?ice ghetto; slave labor in Markkleeberg with her sister; her sister sharing extra food received from a civilian worker; escaping from a death march with her sister and two others; liberation by Soviet troops; staying near Dresden; identifying a former Hungarian soldier who had beaten her; revoking her accusation after he begged her for his life; traveling to Budapest, then to her home in Abau?jsza?nto?; paying the taxes on the family home; recuperating from tuberculosis in Budapest; joining Zionists to prepare for illegal emigration to Palestine; incarceration by the British in Cyprus; settling in Israel; and emigration to the United States. Mrs. S. discusses several trips to her home in Abau?jsza?nto? and sharing her experiences with her children and grandchildren. She shows photographs.

Extent and Medium

4 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.

Related Units of Description

  • Associated material: Zahava S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-301) Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Rules and Conventions

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Process Info

  • compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

People

  • S., Zahava -- 1929-

Corporate Bodies

  • Markkleeberg (Concentration camp)
  • Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
  • Auschwitz (Concentration camp)

Subjects

  • Video tapes.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • Jew -- Slovakia -- Košice.
  • Concentration camps -- Psychological aspects.
  • Death marches.
  • Escapes.
  • Child survivors.
  • Survivor-child relations.
  • Antisemitism -- Prewar.
  • Women.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
  • Human experimentation in medicine.
  • Forced labor.
  • Sisters.
  • Aid by non-Jews.
  • Mutual aid.
  • Revenge.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Zionist organizations.
  • Antisemitism -- Postwar.

Places

  • Germany.
  • Dresden (Germany)
  • Cyprus.
  • Budapest (Hungary)
  • Israel.
  • Palestine -- Emigration and immigration.
  • Košice ghetto.
  • Abaújszántó (Hungary)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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