- Summary
- 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.
- Author/Creator
- G., Irene, 1934-
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 2011
- Interview Date
- May 5, 2011.
- Locale
- Hungary
Debrecen
Hajdúszoboszló (Hungary)
Debrecen (Hungary)
- Cite As
- Irene G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4442). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Rudof, Joanne Weiner, interviewer.
Katz, Barbara Hadley, interviewer.
