Elizabeth K. Holocaust testimony
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
People
- K., Elizabeth, -- 1917-
Corporate Bodies
- United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
- Płaszów (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Jews -- Hungary -- Sátoraljaújhely.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Children -- Death.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Death marches.
- Forced labor.
- Mass killings.
- Husband -- Death.
- Postwar experiences.
- Aid by non-Jews.
Places
- Munkacs (Hungary)
- Grünberg (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Sátoraljaújhely ghetto.
- Paris (France)
- Malmö (Sweden)
- Israel.
- Mukacheve (Ukraine)
- Czechoslovakia.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat