- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Etta W., who was born in Czechoslovakia in 1922. She recalls cordial relations with non-Jews in her village; attending a Christian school; joining a Zionist group against her grandmother's wishes; her older sister's emigration to Palestine; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish regulations; leaving for Budapest in 1939; emigration to Palestine using the passport of another person; joining the British army as a nurse; serving in Italy; assisting survivors to emigrate to Palestine after the war; learning most of her family and people from her village had perished; discharge from the service; completing her nursing training in Israel; meeting her future husband, a non-Jewish American; marriage in Israel; and emigration to the United States. Mrs. W. discusses her guilt at surviving while so many friends and relatives were killed and a reunion with a surviving cousin in Canada who shared her story and those of other relatives.
- Author/Creator
- W., Etta, 1922-
- Published
- San Antonio, Tex. : Children of the Holocaust-Second Generation of San Antonio, 1989
- Interview Date
- January 15, 1989.
- Locale
- Czechoslovakia
Budapest (Hungary)
Italy
Palestine
- Cite As
- Etta W. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1482). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Brown, Cindy, interviewer.
Schoenfeld, Larry, interviewer.
- Notes
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Copies of documents and photographs are available in the repository.
There is a 10 second gap at the beginning of this testimony and a 30 second gap at 1:03.
