- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Anita S., who was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia in 1930. She recalls her family's affluence; German occupation; confiscation of their house; her mother bribing an official to avoid the family's deportation; her uncle's suicide in 1940; deportation with her family to Theresienstadt in 1942; living with her mother and brother; participating in organized activities, including an opera; their transfer to Auschwitz in 1943; assignment to Birkenau's family camp; her father's transfer to Germany in 1944; separation from her mother and brother (she never saw them again); transfer to Hamburg; arduous forced labor; being "adopted" by Czech prisoners; Allied bombardments; receiving food and a birthday treat from a German soldier; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; horrendous conditions; witnessing cannibalism; and liberation by British troops. Mrs. S. recounts transport to Prague; living in an orphanage; learning her father had been killed; attending art school; joining Haganah; emigrating to Israel in 1948; fighting in the Israel-Arab War; her son's birth; and moving to the United States. She discusses pervasive fear in the camps; shielding her mother; anger that none of her family survived; and regrets that she has not told her son enough about her experiences. She shows photographs.
- Author/Creator
- S., Anita, 1930-
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1994
- Interview Date
- July 21, 1994.
- Locale
- Czech Republic
Brno (Czech Republic)
Czechoslovakia
Hamburg (Germany)
Prague (Czech Republic)
Israel
- Cite As
- Anita S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2556). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Rudof, Joanne Weiner, interviewer.
Katz, Barbara Hadley, interviewer.
- Notes
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Additional written material is available in repository.
