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Miriam A. Holocaust testimony (HVT-650)

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-650

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Miriam A., who was born in Hungary, one of eight children. She recounts her father's position as a Hebrew teacher in Nyírbátor; her brothers' draft into Hungarian slave labor battalions; studying nursing in Budapest; returning home in 1942; German invasion in 1944; ghettoization; deportation with her family to Auschwitz four weeks later; separation from her family, except her sister, in Birkenau; transfer to Dachau in August; and liberation by United States troops in April 1945. She shows a photograph of one of the men who liberated her.
Author/Creator: A., Miriam.
Published: Wilmette, Ill. : Holocaust Education Foundation, 1985
Interview Date: October 10, 1985.
Locale: Hungary
Nyírbátor (Hungary)
Budapest (Hungary)
Cite As: Miriam A. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-650). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 3 copies: 3/4 in. master; 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (55 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jewish ghettos. Sisters. Hungary. Nyírbátor (Hungary) Budapest (Hungary) Oral histories (document genres) A., Miriam. Birkenau (Concentration camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Dachau (Concentration camp)

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
Special Collection: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

Link to Yale University Library Catalog:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4282262
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:25:00
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