Chava K. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 3789
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Chava K., who was born in Komárno, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1931, the older of two children. She recounts visiting relatives in Budapest; her family's conversion in 1942, hoping to save themselves; enjoying church services; her father's illness and death; German invasion in 1944; her mother's deportation; their former maid assisting her and her brother; living with her ballet teacher, then her grandparents; ghettoization; living with her friend's family; deportation to Auschwitz; attaching herself to an older woman; transfer a week later to Płaszów; useless slave labor; observing prisoner executions; and transfer back to Auschwitz. Ms. K. discusses psychologically distancing herself from what was happening in the ghetto and camps, then becoming terrified in Płaszów; living with that fear to the present day; and a recent visit to Komárno. She reads her poetry.

Extent and Medium

3 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

People

  • K., Chava,, -- 1930-

Corporate Bodies

  • Płaszów (Concentration camp)
  • Auschwitz (Concentration camp)

Subjects

  • Forced labor.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
  • Jews -- Slovakia -- Komárno.
  • Concentration camps -- Psychological aspects.
  • Identification (Religion)
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • Jewish children in the Holocaust.
  • Christian converts from Judaism.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
  • Women.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Video tapes.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Child survivors.
  • Postwar effects.

Places

  • Komárno (Západoslovenský kraj, Slovakia)
  • Czechoslovakia.
  • Budapest (Hungary)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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