- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Margaret H., who was born in Vel̕ká Ida, Czechoslovakia in 1925. She recounts cordial relations with non-Jews; attending school in Košice; Hungarian occupation; her brother's draft into a slave labor battalion; ghettoization in 1944; non-Jewish neighbors bringing them food and blankets; transfer to the Košice ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her parents (she never saw them again); forced labor; always remaining with her sister; a death march in January; train transfer to Bergen-Belsen; she and her sister contracting typhus; liberation by British troops; recuperating in Celle; returning home with her sister; reunion with their brother; her sister's marriage; moving with her to Kráľovský Chlmec; meeting her husband; emigrating to the United States via Vienna; and being joined by her sister in 1965. Mrs. H. discusses reluctance to share her experiences with her children; becoming very emotional when talking about her past; continuing nightmares; and her sense that she doesn't know where she belongs.
- Author/Creator
- H., Margaret, 1925-
- Published
- San Antonio, Tex. : Children of the Holocaust-Second Generation of San Antonio, 1988
- Interview Date
- February 21, 1988.
- Locale
- Slovakia
Košice
Czechoslovakia
Košice (Slovakia)
Vel̕ká Ida (Slovakia)
Celle (Germany)
Kráľovský Chlmec (Slovakia)
- Cite As
- Margaret H. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1140). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Mohl, Paul, interviewer.
Braverman, Phyllis, interviewer.
