- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Henriette K., who was born in Nové Zámky, Czechoslovakia in 1925. She recalls growing up in a prosperous family; her close relationship with her father; Hungarian occupation; anti-Semitic incidents including the vandalizing of their home; the family's move to Budapest in 1940; her father's employment by a Swiss company; her sister's marriage and emigration to Palestine; their busy social life in 1942 and 1943; and German occupation in March 1944. Mrs. K. recollects her engagement to a Hungarian soldier who obtained false papers for her family; her father's refusal to leave Hungary or hide; his deportation (he died in Mauthausen); her escape five days later with her fiance; the mass shooting of some 600 Jews at the river, including the residents of her house; escape with her fiance to the Russian front; returning to Budapest; hiding with an acquaintance of his in late 1944; dreams of her father; her fiance aiding other Jews; hunger; liberation; and avoiding assault by Russian soldiers. She discusses her marriage in 1945; being caught with her husband and two sons during an escape attempt from Hungary during the 1956 Revolution; emigration to Israel in 1957; her husband's adjustment difficulties; and emigration to the United States in 1962.
- Author/Creator
- K., Henriette, 1925-
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale, 1987
- Interview Date
- May 16, 1987.
- Locale
- Nové Zámky (Slovakia)
Budapest (Hungary)
Czechoslovakia
Israel
Hungary
- Cite As
- Henriette K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-895). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale Univeristy Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Rothstein, Sergio, interviewer.
Schiff, Gabriele, interviewer.
- Notes
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Associated material: Barna K. Holocaust testimony [husband] (HVT-304), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
