Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Judit B., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1933. She recalls her family's assimilated lifestyle; their conversion to Unitarianism; attending a Lutheran school; her father losing his job in 1942 due to antisemitic laws, despite their conversion; German occupation in spring 1944; her father's brief incarceration in a labor camp; expulsion from school in April; moving to a Jewish designated area; her family obtaining Swedish passports in summer 1944; a non-Jewish friend arranging for her to be hidden in the countryside as a non-Jew using false papers; her parents bringing her home as the Soviets approached; the non-Jewish caretaker of their building hiding them during a raid; entering a Swedish safe house for five days in November; being hidden with her sister; living in another Swedish safe house with her sister and parents; liberation by Soviet troops in January 1945; her sister's death in a traffic accident in 1947; Communist oppression after 1948; and emigrating to Austria with her husband in 1956, then to England in 1957.
- Published
- London, England : British Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1993
- Interview Date
- May 20, 1993.
- Locale
- Hungary
Budapest
Budapest (Hungary) - Cite As
- Judit B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2417). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (2 hr., 49 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Child survivors.
Aid by non-Jews.
Hiding.
False papers.
Safe houses.
Postwar experiences. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Jewish children in the Holocaust. Christian converts from Judaism. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Hungary--Budapest. Sisters. Mothers and daughters. Fathers and daughters. Hungary. Budapest (Hungary) Oral histories (document genres) B., Judit,--1933-
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
-
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4287458
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-29 11:47:00
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- http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4287458
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