Joyce H. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 2911
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Joyce H., who was born in Vysna? Rybnica, Czechoslovakia in 1930. She recalls cordial relations with non-Jews; Hungarian occupation; attending boarding school; German occupation in 1944; her parents' ghettoization in Uz?h?orod; being hidden by a non-Jew; joining her parents; their deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her parents upon arrival (she never saw them again); transfer to Hamburg; slave labor removing rubble after Allied bombings; receiving food from a Dutch foreman and political prisoners; transfer to Bergen-Belsen in February 1945; receiving no food or water; prisoners dying all around; liberation by British troops; hospitalization; transfer by the Swedish Red Cross to recuperate in Sweden; attending school; visiting her uncle in Prague; emigrating to Canada in 1949; and moving to the United States where she met her husband.

Extent and Medium

2 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. This testimony may not be used until 2030.

Rules and Conventions

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Process Info

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

People

  • H., Joyce, -- 1930-

Corporate Bodies

  • Svenska röda korset.
  • Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
  • Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)

Subjects

  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Video tapes.
  • Women.
  • Jews -- Ukraine -- Uz︠h︡horod.
  • Child survivors.
  • Forced labor.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
  • Hungarian occupation.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Hiding.
  • Aid by non-Jews.

Places

  • Czechoslovakia.
  • Hamburg (Germany)
  • Vysná Rybnica (Slovakia)
  • Canada.
  • Ungvár ghetto.
  • Prague (Czech Republic)
  • Sweden.

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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