Margaret S. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Margaret S., who was born in Velikiy Rakovets in Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1928, one of four children. She recounts her family's move to Khust when she was an infant; attending public school; Hungarian occupation; her father's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1943 (he did not survive); ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her family (none survived); transfer to Reichenbach; slave labor in a Telefunken factory for eight months; a death march to another camp, then Salzwedel; liberation by United States troops; returning to Khust; discovering only an uncle had survived; moving to the Sudetenland; marriage to a survivor from Khust in 1948; the birth of a child; emigration to Israel via Romania; her daughter's birth in HĚŁaderah; living in Netanyah; and emigration to the United States in 1953.
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
- S., Margaret, -- 1928-
Corporate Bodies
- Salzwedel (Concentration camp)
- Telefunken G.m.b.H.
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Postwar experiences.
- Jews -- Ukraine -- Khust.
- Forced labor.
- Death marches.
- Hungarian occupation.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
Places
- Reichenbach (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Khust ghetto.
- Khust (Ukraine)
- Romania.
- HĚŁaderah (Israel)
- Netanyah (Israel)
- Czechoslovakia.
- Velikiy Rakovets (Ukraine)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat