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Tusia H. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1089) interviewed by Raphael Rozner and Raya Adler,

Oral History | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1089

Videotape testimonies of Tusia H., whose family had deep roots in Be̜dzin, Poland. She recalls active participation in a Zionist group; one brother's emigration to Israel; her father's deportation to Auschwitz in 1942 (she never saw him again); marriage; ghettoization in 1943; working in the hospital and pharmacy; a brother's resistance activities; his escape to Slovakia; following him with her mother, but not her husband, who was to have come later; assisting Jews escape to Slovakia; traveling to Budapest as non-Jews on false papers; contacts with Joel Brand and Rudolf Kasztner; organizing in Mohács; abandoning the operation after some arrests; posing as a Polish Red Cross worker and visiting jailed partisans in Pécs, including her brother who had been sentenced to death; the prisoners' liberation by Soviet troops (she had returned to Budapest seeking her husband); liberation; finding her husband (he was already working for United States forces); living with relatives in Belgium; and emigration to Israel in 1951. Ms. H. discusses their resistance activities as revenge for their father's deportation; the importance of luck; and difficulties escaping from Poland and continuing to operate as a group.

Author/Creator
H., Tusia.
Published
Ramat Aviv, Israel : Beth Hatefutsoth, Nahum Goldman Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, 1985
Interview Date
January 18, 1985 and March 1, 1990.
Locale
Poland
Będzin
Slovakia
Hungary
Będzin (Poland)
Budapest (Hungary)
Mohács (Hungary)
Pécs (Hungary)
Belgium
Language
Hebrew
Copies
2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Cite As
Tusia H. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1089). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
 
View in Yale University Library Catalog: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4283232
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