Gizella K. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Gizella K., who was born in Budapest in 1907. She recalls her affluent childhood; pervasive antisemitism; her mother managing the family factory after her father's death; marriage; a daughter's birth; divorce and remarriage; her mother and daughter visiting the United States in 1939; difficulties getting them back after the war began; her second daughter's birth in 1943; learning her younger brother was killed in a forced labor battalion; her husband coming home almost nightly from his forced labor; placing her daughters in a convent; getting the younger child back; German invasion while visiting the older daughter with her mother and daughter; hiding in the convent (her husband joined them); moving to a former employee's house; liberation; her older daughter and husband encountering piles of bodies while searching for her ex-husband; visiting Prague with her family in 1948; and joining her mother in the United States a few weeks later.

2 videocassettes