Irene G. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Irene G., who was born in Hajdúszoboszló, Hungary in 1934, the oldest of five children. She recalls her family's orthodoxy; beautiful memories of Sabbath and holiday observances, despite their minimal lifestyle; attending a Jewish school; antisemitic harassment; her father's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1942; German occupation in 1944; round-up with her grandmother, siblings, and mother in June; deportation to the Debrecen ghetto, then to Strasshof; lack of sanitation and food; transfer to a camp in Vienna; caring for her siblings while her mother worked; frequent bombings; an encounter with her aunt (they never saw her again); transfer to Theresienstadt; being allowed to play on a nearby hill; aid from the Red Cross immediately before liberation by Soviet troops in May 1945; returning to Hajdúszoboszló; living with an aunt; her father's return; moving to Debrecen; and emigration with her family to join her father's sister in the United States in February 1948. Ms. G. discusses attributing their survival to her mother; her grandmother's death after they were deported; and marriage to a survivor.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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Process Info
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People
- G., Irene, -- 1934-
Corporate Bodies
- Strasshof (Concentration camp)
- Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
Subjects
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Jews -- Hungary -- Debrecen.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Child survivors.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Mutual aid.
- Postwar experiences.
- Sisters.
- Brothers and sisters.
- Grandparent and child.
- Concentration camp inmates -- Family relationships.
Places
- Debrecen ghetto.
- Vienna (Austria : Concentration camp)
- Hungary.
- Hajdúszoboszló (Hungary)
- Debrecen (Hungary)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat