- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Hermina H., who was born in Uz︠h︡horod, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) to a family of five daughters. She recalls her Hungarian, rather than Czech, sense of identity; beginning to work in 1938; Hungarian occupation; antisemitic laws; her father's death in 1939; German invasion in March 1944; ghettozation in a brick factory; deportation to Auschwitz in June; maneuvering to stay with three of her sisters; learning her mother and other family members had been gassed; starvation and selections; receiving clothes from her mother's cousin; transfer to Stutthof; being beaten for the first time; transfer to Toruń; slave labor digging trenches; one sister being shot on a death march; internment in Krone prison; and liberation by Soviet troops. Mrs. H. recounts living in Bydgoszcz; returning to Uz︠h︡horod; reunion with her brother-in-law; moving to Czechoslovakia; marriage; and emigration to Argentina, then the United States. She discusses happy memories of Uz︠h︡horod as well as lingering sadness, loneliness, and nightmares. She shows family photographs.
- Author/Creator
- H., Hermina, 1921-
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1989
- Interview Date
- November 13, 1989.
- Locale
- Ukraine
Uz︠h︡horod
Czechoslovakia
Uz︠h︡horod (Ukraine)
Bydgoszcz (Poland)
Budapest (Hungary)
Argentina
- Cite As
- Hermina H. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1284). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Dwork, Bonnie, interviewer.
Strochlic, Kathy, interviewer.
