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Ilona G. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2421) interviewed by Henry M. Strage,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2421

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Ilona G., who was born in Putnok, Hungary in 1921. She recalls her family's comfortable life; their orthodoxy; attending a Jewish school until age ten, then a secular school; studying languages in Czechoslovakia for a year; learning dressmaking; deportation with her family in 1941 as non-Hungarian citizens; an officer verifying their Hungarian citizenship at the border; returning home; her sister's marriage; draft of her father and brother-in-law into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1940; German invasion in 1944; deportation with her family to Auschwitz (her grandfather died en route); encountering cousins; remaining with friends from her town; slave labor; encountering her brother-in-law; observing Rosh ha-Shannah and Yom Kippur with her group; transfer to Mühlhausen in October; slave labor in a munitions factory; Germans throwing them extra food; transfer to Bergen-Belsen in March 1945; liberation by British troops; assistance from the Red Cross; transfer to Stockholm; recuperating in a convalescent home; learning her brother was alive; retuning to Putnok to be with him; marriage; living in Miskolc; her daughter's birth in 1957; and emigration from Hungary in 1957. She shows photographs.
    Author/Creator
    G., Ilona, 1921-
    Published
    London, England : British Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1993
    Interview Date
    February 17, 1993.
    Locale
    Hungary
    Putnok (Hungary)
    Budapest (Hungary)
    Stockholm (Sweden)
    Miskolc (Hungary)
    Cite As
    Ilona G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2421). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Strage, Henry M., interviewer.

    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., 55 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Mutual aid.
    Aid by non-Jews.
    Postwar experiences.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4287476
    Record last modified:
    2018-05-30 11:33:00
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