Elizabeth K. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 2916
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Elizabeth K., who was born in Munkacs, Czechoslovakia (presently Mukacheve, Ukraine) in 1917, one of four children in an affluent family. She recalls marriage in 1942; her husband's deportation six months later for forced labor (she never saw him again); her son's birth six months after that; German occupation in 1944; ghettoization in Sa?toraljau?jhely; deportation to Auschwitz; being forced to hand her son to her mother at the selection (she never saw them again); transfer to P?aszo?w the next day; seeing trucks of people pass by, then hearing them being shot; slave labor moving stones; torturous appels; transfer to Auschwitz in November; being taken to the gas chambers, then returned to her barrack by the SS; transfer to Gru?nberg; the death march to Bergen-Belsen; losing consciousness; a Belgian doctor removing her from a pile of corpses after liberation; receiving help from UNRRA; convalescing in Malmo?, Sweden; learning a brother and sister had survived; marriage in 1948; her son's birth in Paris; emigration to Israel in 1953; and moving to the United States in 1960. Mrs. K. notes marital problems and her third marriage in 1962. She shows family photographs.

Extent and Medium

1 videocassette

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.

Rules and Conventions

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Process Info

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

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