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Susan M. Holocaust testimony (HVT-537) interviewed by Sandra Kraff and Allen M. Siegel,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-537

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Susan M., who was raised in Budapest, Hungary. She recalls her paternal grandmother with whom she associates Jewish holidays and traditions; anti-Jewish measures when she was five years old; her father's compulsory service in a Hungarian labor battalion; German invasion; moving into the ghetto in March 1944; separation from her mother during round-ups; her mother's escape from a brick factory and bribing a Hungarian to bring her to a Swedish safe house; living there with her mother; avoiding deportation with assistance from resistants; pervasive fear and hunger; and liberation by Soviet troops on January 18, 1944. Mrs. M. discusses her mother's attempt to protect her through conversion to Christianity; playing with other children in the ghetto and safe house; current nightmares about her father's last visit and her grandmother's death; and sharing memories with her children. She shows photographs and documents.
Author/Creator: M., Susan.
Published: Wilmette, Ill. : Holocaust Education Foundation, 1984
Interview Date: March 3, 1984.
Locale: Hungary
Budapest
Budapest (Hungary)
Cite As: Susan M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-537). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 3 copies: 3/4 in. master; 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (1 hr., 7 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Child survivors.
Safe houses.
Postwar experiences.
Postwar effects.
Survivor-child relations.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Hungary--Budapest. Mothers and daughters. Hungary. Budapest (Hungary) Oral histories (document genres) M., Susan.

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
Special Collection: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

Link to Yale University Library Catalog:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1108228
Record last modified:: 2018-05-29 11:46:00
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