Mancy K. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Mancy K., who was born in Satu Mare, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1917, one of five children. She recalls her family's orthodoxy; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish measures; German invasion in 1944; ghettoization; deportation with her family to Auschwitz; remaining with her sister; receiving extra food when her sister sewed for the block leader; working in the hospital; transfer to Hochweiler; slave labor; working in the hospital; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; liberation by British troops; transfer to Sweden; kindness from the Swedes; learning two brothers had survived in the Soviet Union (her parents, one sister, and her sister's family were killed); her remaining sister's return to Romania (she presently lives in Israel); emigration to join relatives in Canada; and marriage. Ms. K. discusses the importance to her survival of being with her sister and a recent trip to her hometown. She shows photographs and memorabilia.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- K., Mancy, -- 1917-
Corporate Bodies
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Postwar experiences.
- Sisters.
- Hungarian occupation.
- Hospitals in concentration camps.
- Mutual aid.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Romania : Judet -- Satu Mare.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
Places
- Austria.
- Satu Mare (Romania : JudetĚŚ)
- Satu Mare ghetto.
- Sweden.
- Hochweiler-Wirschkowitz (Poland : Concentration camp)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat