- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Aggie H., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1934. She recalls hiding with her parents and brother during deportations of non-Hungarian citizens in 1941 (her father was not a citizen); their deportation; being returned to Budapest due to overcrowding at their destination; her father's service in a Hungarian slave labor battalion; his return; German invasion; ghettoization; living in a safe house; their arrest; returning to the ghetto with her brother; their incarceration in Bergen-Belsen; liberation; returning to Hungary; living in an orphanage and abusive foster homes organized by the Red Cross; moving to a Jewish home for children; reunion with their parents and a newly born brother; her father's physical injuries and her mother's emotional illness; her responsibility for the baby; marriage in 1955; escaping illegally to Austria during the 1956 Revolution; emigrating to the United States; divorce and remarriage; and the births of two children. Ms. H. discusses frequent nightmares; loss of her childhood; continuing emotional problems resulting from the war years; and reluctance to share her experience with her children. She shows photographs.
- Author/Creator
- H., Aggie, 1934-
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1992
- Interview Date
- December 7, 1992.
- Locale
- Hungary
Budapest
Budapest (Hungary)
- Cite As
- Aggie H. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2240). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Dwork, Bonnie, interviewer.
Strochlic, Kathy, interviewer.
