Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Adele R., who was born in Hajduböszörmény, Hungary in 1931, the fifth of seven children. She recalls antisemitic harassment in school; ghettoization in 1944; draft of her father and two older brothers into a slave labor battalion; transfer with her family to a brick factory in Debrecen, then to Strasshof; slave labor shoveling snow and coal; her mother bringing them extra food; fasting on Yom Kippur; a forced march to Mauthausen; piles of corpses and starvation; transfer to Gunskirchen; liberation by United States troops; hospitalization; escaping with others to find their families; entering a Red Cross camp; reunion with her mother and siblings; living in Wels displaced persons camp; returning to Hajduböszörmény; reunion with her father and older brothers; traveling to Vienna; living in Salzburg displaced persons camp; moving to Paris; emigration to join her father's father in the United States in 1949; assistance from the Joint; marriage to a Hungarian survivor; and the births of four daughters. Ms. R. discusses her orthodoxy and continuing faith in God; reluctance to share her story with her children (her husband did); and participating in a survivors' club. She shows photographs and documents.
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 2011
- Interview Date
- July 28, 2011.
- Locale
- Hungary
Hajduböszörmény
Hajdúböszörmény (Hungary)
Debrecen (Hungary)
Vienna (Austria)
Paris (France) - Cite As
- Adele R. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4446). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 3 copies: DVCam master; Betacam SP submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 24 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Child survivors.
Antisemitism Prewar.
Postwar experiences.
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 children in the Holocaust. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Hungary--Hajduböszörmény. Forced labor. Mothers and daughters. Sisters. Brothers and sisters. Concentration camp inmates--Religious life. Faith. Hungary. Hajdúböszörmény (Hungary) Debrecen (Hungary) Vienna (Austria) Paris (France) Oral histories (document genres) R., Adele,--1931- Strasshof (Concentration camp) Mauthausen (Concentration camp) Gunskirchen (Concentration camp) International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/10480514
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:28:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt10480514
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