Rivka B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2881) interviewed by Joni-Sue Blinderman and J. Eden,

Videotape testimony of Rivka B., who was born in Volové, Czechoslovakia (presently Miz︠h︡hirʹi︠a︡, Ukraine) in 1919. She recalls her family's orthodoxy; her mother's death and father's remarriage; attending gymnasium in Munkacs; membership in Hashomer Hatzair; Hungarian occupation; passing Hungarian matriculation exams; moving to Budapest in 1941; German occupation in March 1944; briefly staying in Göd with a former employer; returning to Budapest; marriage during her fiancé's brief release from a forced labor battalion; obtaining Swedish protection papers from Raul Wallenberg's office; witnessing a mass killing of Jews at the Danube and selections and killings by the Arrow Cross Party (Nyilas); staying in a Swedish safe house; briefly joining a work unit; staying with a Hungarian family outside Budapest; returning to the Swedish protection area; liberation by Soviet troops; reunion with her husband; moving to Arad; her son's birth; forced repatriation to Hungary; and economic difficulties. Mrs. B. discusses isolation from anyone in the west until the revolt in 1956; her career as a professor of Russian literature; and her son's emigration to the United States due to antisemitism.