- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Valerie S., who was born in Hungary in 1898. She recounts her family's move to Vienna when she was four; a wonderful childhood and schooling in an affluent home; very close relationships with her mother and sister; marriage in 1923; working as a typist for her husband's anti-Nazi newspaper; fleeing to Budapest with her husband after the Anschluss; learning of her father's arrest from her mother's letters (they were later deported and she never saw them again); fleeing to Paris in 1939 with her husband; his death in January; German occupation; returning to Budapest in 1943; German invasion; acquiring false papers with assistance from a non-Jewish acquaintance; hiding with assistance from her non-Jewish friend; liberation; fleeing to Vienna with her friends in 1956; and emigration to the United States. Mrs. S. notes the importance of luck to her survival and shows documents and photographs.
- Author/Creator
- S., Valerie, 1898-
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1989
- Interview Date
- November 5, 1989.
- Locale
- Hungary
Vienna (Austria)
Budapest (Hungary)
Paris (France)
- Cite As
- Valerie S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1289). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Schiff, Gabriele, interviewer.
