- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Ildi I., who was born in approximately 1933 and raised in Zrenjanin (presently Serbia), Yugoslavia. She recalls her father's military service; being sent with her brother to live with an uncle in Hungarian-occupied territory in 1941 (she never saw her parents again); separation from her brother when she was sent to her maternal aunt (a physician) and grandmother in Subotica; German occupation in 1944; ghettoization; deportation to Bácsalmás, another camp in Austria, then Bergen-Belsen; wandering to other areas of the camp; her aunt working in the clinic; betting with other children on which prisoners conveying corpses in hand wagons would collapse; attending a cabaret; frequent deaths from sickness and starvation; transfer to Theresienstadt in March 1944; liberation by Soviet troops; and assistance from the Red Cross. Ms. I. discusses her brother's survival; viewing life and frequent death in concentration camps as "normal" since it was all she knew; and continuing fear of the dark and being alone resulting from her experiences. She reads from her mother's last letter and shows photographs.
- Author/Creator
- I., Ildi, 1933?-
- Published
- Belgrade, Serbia : Jewish Community in Belgrade, 1989
- Interview Date
- December 10, 1989.
- Locale
- Serbia
Subotica (Subotica)
Zrenjanin (Serbia)
Subotica (Subotica, Serbia)
- Cite As
- Ildi I. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1326). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Almuli, Jaša, interviewer.
- Notes
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This testimony is in Serbian.
Related material: Ivan I. Holocaust testimony [brother] (HVT-1325), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
