- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Irene G., who was born in Kuchava, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1929, the youngest of eight children. She recounts her father died when she was an infant; attending school and synagogue in Kuzʹmino; Hungarian occupation; living with her married sister in order to attend school in Mukacheve; German occupation in spring 1944; returning home with her sister; one brother hiding with assistance from non-Jews; forced relocation to Kalʹnik, then the Munkács ghetto in April; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau two weeks later; separation with her four sisters from their mother (she never saw her again); a privileged assignment sorting belongings of murdered Jews; finding hidden valuables; liquidation of the Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Lager) in one night; smuggling for the underground because she was less suspicious as a child; providing food and clothing to other prisoners; the Sonderkommando revolt; a public hanging; a death march and train transport with her sisters to Ravensbrück; transfer to Neustadt-Glewe; slave labor in an airplane factory; liberation; traveling with her sisters to Prenzlau, Prague, and Budapest; reunion with two brothers; marriage; emigration to the United States in 1949; and helping her sisters join her. Ms. G. discusses the importance of the sisters being together for their survival; pervasive painful memories; and frequent nightmares. She shows photographs.
- Author/Creator
- G., Irene, 1929-
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1993
- Interview Date
- September 20, 1993.
- Locale
- Czechoslovakia
Kuchava (Ukraine)
Mukacheve (Ukraine)
Kuzʹmyno (Zakarpatsʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine)
Kalʹnyk (Zakarpatsʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine)
Prenzlau (Germany)
Prague (Czech Republic)
Budapest (Hungary)
- Cite As
- Irene G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2682). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Blinderman, Joni-Sue, interviewer.
- Notes
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Related material: Marie B. Holocaust testimony [sister](HVT-2880), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
