- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Anna H., who was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1928. She recalls her assimilated life; German invasion; her sister's marriage and transport to Terezín in 1941, followed by her and her parents in 1942; educational and cultural activities in Terezín; the Jewish leadership's decision to provide extra rations for children; her niece's birth in 1943; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944 and her promise to her sister to care for their parents; transfer from the family camp to Christianstadt (she never saw her parents again); a German foreman who allowed a woman who had just given birth to rest; learning of her sister's and niece's deaths; fleeing the camp with friends, including Doris W.; capture; and incarceration in Niesky and Görlitz. Mrs. H. recounts returning to Prague after the war; adjustment difficulties, particularly the first year; resuming her education; marriage and her children's births; publishing her story "underground," then officially when the Czech government changed; and her present work collecting oral histories of Holocaust survivors for the Jewish Museum in Prague. She discusses her feelings about her promise to care for her parents and seeing a photograph of a suitcase in Auschwitz with her niece's name, the only evidence the child ever lived.
- Author/Creator
- H., Anna, 1928-
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1993
- Interview Date
- May 3, 1993.
- Locale
- Czechoslovakia
Prague (Czech Republic)
- Cite As
- Anna H. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2086). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Rudof, Joanne Weiner, interviewer.
Kline, Dana L., interviewer.
- Notes
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Associated material: Doris W. Holocaust testimony [friend] (HVT-1410), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Related publication: Svět bez lidských dimenzí : čtyři ženy vzpomínají / [Ela Fisherová ... et al.] -- 1. vyd. -- V Praze : Státní židovské muzeum ve spolupráci s Federací židovskv́ch obcí v Čechách a na Moravě, c1991.
