Margaret F. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Margaret F., who was born in Csengeru?jfalu, Hungary in 1927. She recalls her family's Hungarian identity; her five brothers; attending Jewish services in Csenger; her father's and oldest brother's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; anti-Jewish regulations; her father's release; ghettoization in a city; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her family (none survived); a baby's birth; visiting the hidden baby until its death; transfer to Stutthof; assignment with three friends to a farm; an ample diet; return to Stutthof; digging ditches in a village; German guards giving them extra food; a forced march; being locked in a barn for several weeks; one friend's death; losing her will to live; liberation by Soviet troops; amputation of her toes; assistance from the Red Cross; returning to Csengeru?jfalu; reunion with her oldest brother; plans to emigrate to Israel; collapsing from tuberculosis; two years in a sanitarium; assistance from the Joint; joining an uncle in France; emigration to join relatives in Canada; marriage to a survivor; and adopting a daughter (she could not have children due to her experiences). Ms. F. discusses sharing her story with her daughter; her pervasive sense of loss; and her love for Canada. She shows photographs.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- F., Margaret, -- 1927-
Corporate Bodies
- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Stutthof (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Childbirth in concentration camps.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Postwar effects.
- Postwar experiences.
- Friendship.
- Concentration camps -- Psychological aspects.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Forced labor.
- Jewish ghettos.
Places
- Csenger (Hungary)
- France.
- Hungary.
- CsengeruĚjfalu (Hungary)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat