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Judith K. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1063) interviewed by Raphael Rozner and Miriam Lazarus,

Oral History | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1063

Videotape testimony of Judith K., who was born in Subotica, Yugoslavia. She recalls her pleasant family life; attending Jewish elementary and Yugoslav high school; her father's Zionist activities; exclusion from university due to a Jewish quota; Hungarian occupation in 1941; working as a seamstress; her father's one-month service in a labor camp; German occupation in 1944; her father's deportation in April (she never saw him again); ghettoization; with her mother, aunt and grandmother, separation from the deportation train (they had been included in the Kasztner group); their transfer to Budapest; her grandmother's death; deportation to Bergen-Belsen with the Kasztner group in June; their privileged status; Shabbat and Rosh ha-Shanah services; departure of a small subgroup in August; learning about Auschwitz from new arrivals; her mother's unsuccessful suicide attempt; train transport in December; arrival in Saint Gall, Switzerland; transfers to Caux, Montreux, and Engelberg; and returning to Subotica in August 1945. Mrs. K. recalls learning her father had perished in Bergen-Belsen after their own departure; her guilt about not remaining there; some people making them feel unwelcome in Yugoslavia; and emigration to Israel in 1949.

Author/Creator
K., Judith.
Published
Ramat Aviv, Israel : Beth Hatefutsoth, Nahum Goldman Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, 1984
Interview Date
June 1, 1984.
Locale
Serbia
Subotica
Switzerland
Yugoslavia
Subotica (Subotica, Serbia)
Budapest (Hungary)
Saint Gall (Switzerland)
Montreux (Switzerland)
Engelberg (Obwalden, Switzerland)
Caux (Switzerland)
Israel
Language
Hebrew
Copies
2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Cite As
Judith K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1063). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.