- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Georgette S., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1925. She recalls her father's service in World War I; their strong Hungarian, rather than Jewish, identity; attending a private German school; escalation of anti-Jewish laws from 1939 until 1943; German invasion in spring 1944; ghettoization; avoiding a round-up of young women because her mother claimed her German school certificate exempted her (the soldiers could not read German); their escape from the ghetto in October with assistance from non-Jewish friends; hiding with her parents in a room of their former villa with assistance from non-Jews who were renting a portion of the villa; eventually being joined by about ten other Jews including George Soros; near starvation; and liberation by Soviet troops. Mrs. S. recounts marriage to an American; emigration to the United States in 1948; her parents' deportations as capitalists; and bringing her parents to the U.S. in 1956.
- Author/Creator
- S., Georgette, 1925-
- Published
- Wilmette, Ill. : Holocaust Education Foundation, 1994
- Interview Date
- March 6, 1994.
- Locale
- Hungary
Budapest
Budapest (Hungary)
- Cite As
- Georgette S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2469). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Jacob, Elizabeth, interviewer.
