Olga S. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Olga S., who was born in Czechoslovakia (now Ukraine) in 1929. She recalls her family's comfortable and observant life; occasional antisemitism; Hungarian occupation; antisemitic laws resulting in eviction from their home and termination of her father's employment; his death; joining her mother who had moved to Budapest to work (two sisters and a brother were in Budapest orphanages); German occupation; Swedish government designation of their building as a "safe house"; visiting her siblings disguised as a non-Jew; escaping arrest (her mother was arrested but escaped with the help of a disguised Jew in the Arrow Cross); her brother being caught escaping (they later learned he was shot); their house losing its protection; moving to the ghetto; liberation by Soviet troops four weeks later; friendship with a Soviet soldier; reunion with a surviving uncle; living in Budapest, Munka?cs, and Ostas?ov; traveling to the United States with her sister to attend school; assistance from the Joint; marriage to a Czech survivor; and bringing her mother and sister to the U.S. in 1956. Mrs. S. discusses her children's interest in the Holocaust; their membership in second generation groups; and visiting her hometowns with her children.

3 videocassettes