- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Cornelia S., who was born in a Hungarian village in 1915. She recalls life in the village and Budapest; attending boarding school in Budapest; marriage in 1937; the births of her sons in Novi Sad in 1938 and 1941; anti-Jewish measures; going to Budapest with her older son in 1942; learning her husband was killed in December; having her younger son brought to Budapest; German occupation; her arrest in Budapest (she never saw her mother and children again); transport to Kistarcsa, then Auschwitz; digging ditches in Birkenau; working in the Canada Kommando; assistance from a German officer at an I.G. Farben factory; sharing food with other prisoners; public hangings; the death march in January 1945; two weeks in Ravensbrück; camouflaging airplanes and digging trenches in Neustadt/Glewe; and liberation by Soviet troops. Mrs. S. recounts traveling to Neubrandenburg; a circuitous trip to Budapest; her second marriage; the birth of two sons; leaving Hungary in April 1949; living in the Rothschild Hospital displaced persons camp in Vienna; and emigrating to the United States seven years later. Mrs. S. discusses the almost complete loss of her large family; and trips to Budapest with her husband.
- Author/Creator
- S., Cornelia, 1915-
- Published
- Houston, Tex. : Holocaust Education Center and Memorial Museum of Houston, 1992
- Interview Date
- February 5, 1992.
- Locale
- Hungary
Budapest (Hungary)
Novi Sad (Serbia)
Neubrandenburg (Germany)
- Cite As
- Cornelia S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1949). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Rosenbaum, Adriana, interviewer.
Freed, Nancy, interviewer.
- Notes
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Associated material: Cornelia S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1138). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
