- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Anna R., who was born in Rajka, Hungary in 1931. She recalls her family's orthodoxy; attending a Catholic school (there was no Jewish school); being taken to a ghetto in March 1944; transfer a month later to the Győr ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz two months later; remaining with her sister (she never saw her parents again); being told by a prisoner to say she was sixteen; separation from her sister; forced labor; seeing her sister once; transfer to Gebhardsdorf; receiving extra food from a camp official; a forced march to Georgenthal in February; forced factory labor; Allied bombings; liberation by Soviet troops on May 9, 1945; traveling to Budapest; returning home; reunion with her brother; learning a year later her sister was alive; antisemitic discrimination; six months imprisonment for an escape attempt in 1950; marriage in 1951; escaping during the 1956 uprising; and emigration with her family and siblings to the United States.
- Author/Creator
- R., Anna, 1931-
- Published
- San Antonio, Tex. : Children of the Holocaust-Second Generation of San Antonio, 1987
- Interview Date
- December 6, 1987.
- Locale
- Hungary
Győr
Rajka (Hungary)
Budapest (Hungary)
- Cite As
- Anna R. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1307). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Braverman, Phyllis, interviewer.
Joskowitz, Geri, interviewer.
