- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Judith S., who was born in Berehovo, Czechoslovakia (today Beregovo, Ukraine), in 1928. Mrs. S. describes her extended family's ancestral home, where she anticipated spending her life; pleasant visits with relatives; Hungarian occupation in 1938; expulsion of undocumented aliens; deportations to Jewish labor battalions; the family not believing rumors of Jews being killed in Poland; and retreating German troops who billeted at her home in early 1944. She details sudden deportation to the Berehovo ghetto; transport to Auschwitz; separation from her father, mother, and brother during selection (she never saw them again); acquaintances who helped her and her sister; transport in June 1944 to Aachen to clear rubble; an Allied air raid which killed 300 of her group; transfer to a Krupp factory in Sömmerda, where her sister died; and liberation during a forced march near Erfurt. She tells of returning home by train with surviving family friends; finding a cousin in Bratislava; retrieving family valuables; hastily departing with other surviving relatives for Budapest and then Prague after her town's incorporation into the Soviet Union; and emigration to England in 1946 and Canada in 1948. She frequently reflects on how the Holocaust changed her life.
- Author/Creator
- S., Judith, 1928-2004.
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale, 1985
- Interview Date
- November 4, 1985.
- Locale
- Ukraine
Berehove
Czechoslovakia
Berehove (Ukraine)
Aachen (Germany)
Erfurt (Germany)
Bratislava (Slovakia)
Budapest (Hungary)
Prague (Czech Republic)
- Cite As
- Judith S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-626). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Bayme, Edith, interviewer.
Milgram, Sasha, interviewer.
