- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Judith N., who was born in Gherla (Szamosújvár), Romania in 1930 to a rabbincal family of eight children. She recalls moving to Kolozsvár (Cluj); attending Tarbut school; her family's return to Gherla after German occupation; her brother's conscription for forced labor in 1944; ghettoization in April; transfer to the Cluj ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz in May; selection with two of her sisters (she never saw her parents or other siblings again); their belief that they would survive; appels and selections; transfer to a labor camp; her sisters dying during a death march; receiving food from Czech civilians; liberation by United States troops; recuperation in a military hospital; traveling to Budapest; reunion with her brother in Cluj; living in a displaced persons camp near Stuttgart; help from HIAS; emigration to the United States; living with her uncle and aunt; and marriage to a survivor. Mrs. N. discusses details of camp life; the importance of being with her sisters; her family's reluctance to hear her experiences; not telling her children; writing her Masters' thesis on the children of survivors; visiting her hometowns with her children; and her biographical book.
- Author/Creator
- N., Judith, 1930-
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1993
- Interview Date
- December 8, 1993.
- Locale
- Romania
Cluj-Napoca
Gherla
Gherla (Romania)
Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
Stuttgart (Germany)
Budapest (Hungary)
- Cite As
- Judith N. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2690). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Rappaport, Naomi, interviewer.
- Notes
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Related publication: The lilac bush / Judith Mandel Novak. -- New York, N.Y. : Shengold Publishers, c1989.