Sara F. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Sara F., who was born in Galanta, Czechoslovakia in 1922, one of seven children. She recalls her father's death; her mother raising them and managing the family bakery; caring for her nephew when her sister remained in Budapest in 1942; ghettoization; forced relocation to a farm; deportation to Auschwitz in June 1944; a prisoner forcing her to give her nephew to her mother, which saved her life (they perished); remaining with her younger sister; saving her from a selection; their transfer to Allendorf after ten weeks; slave labor in a munitions factory; a German supervisor colluding in sabotaging the products they made; escaping with her sister and others from a death march; liberation by United States troops in Ziegenhain; living with a German family in Niedergrenzebach until June 1945; returning to Galanta; and reunion with two brothers. Mrs. F. discusses helping her sister and other younger prisoners; solidarity among Slovak prisoners which provided them with extra food and other privileges; and a reunion in Allendorf in 1990 organized by the German government.
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
- F., Sara, -- 1922-
Corporate Bodies
- Allendorf (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Sabotage.
- Postwar effects.
- Mutual aid.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Escapes.
- Sisters.
- Death marches.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Concentration camps -- Sociological aspects.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Slovakia -- Galanta.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Postwar experiences.
Places
- Niedergrenzebach (Germany)
- Ziegenhain (Germany)
- Galanta ghetto.
- Galanta (Slovakia)
- Czechoslovakia.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat