Sara F. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 3666
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

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

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

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