Rose F. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Rose F., who was born in Szentgottha?rd, Hungary in 1924. She recalls attending high school in Ko?rmend; moving to Budapest in 1943; German occupation in March 1944; returning to Szentgottha?rd; transfer with her parents to the Szombathely ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her parents upon arrival (she never saw them again); transfer to a camp in upper Silesia and to Peterswaldau; sharing food with a friend; slave labor at a munitions factory; liberation by Soviet troops; and receiving assistance from the factory owner. Mrs. F. describes traveling to Bratislava, then Budapest; reunion with her aunts; returning to Szombathely; reunion with her brother; recovering in Szentgottha?rd; working in Budapest; fleeing to Austria in November 1956; and emigrating to Canada via England. She discusses sharing her experiences with her daughter.
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
- F., Rose, -- 1924-
Corporate Bodies
- Peterswaldau (Concentration camp)
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Jewish ghettos.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Forced labor.
- Jews -- Hungary -- Szombathely.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Mutual aid.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Postwar experiences.
Places
- Hungary.
- KoĚrmend (Hungary)
- SzentgotthaĚrd (Hungary)
- Bratislava (Slovakia)
- Budapest (Hungary)
- Szombathely ghetto.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat