Anna F. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Anna F., who ws born in Bratislava in 1922, the younger of two sisters. She recounts cordial relations with non-Jews; her family's assimilated lifestyle; her father being forbidden to practice law and their forced relocation to Ivanka pri Dunaji due to anti-Jewish laws; her parents sending her and her sister to enter Hungary illegally; capture in Dudince; incarceration in Krupina then Patronka; avoiding deportation due to assistance from a cousin; release; returning to their parents in Ivanka; obtaining false papers from a German girl who took no payment; staying in Banská Bystrica during the 1944 uprising; learning her husband had been caught; assistance from a doctor in Poltár; returning to Bratislava after the war; reunion with her parents; learning her husband had not survived; finishing university in Prague; working in Nové Zámky; pervasive antisemtism; marriage to a survivor twenty years later; and his death in a car accident. Ms. F. discusses losing her faith upon observing the deportations of so many young people; mourning for her first husband for over twenty years; and attributing her survival to those who helped her and coincidence.

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