- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Peska F., who was born in Siedlce, Poland in 1920. She recalls a happy, affluent childhood; her father's death in 1930; moving to Warsaw with her mother and siblings; attending school in Kraków; German invasion; ghettoization in Warsaw; the Judenrat providing resources for her mother to organize a soup kitchen; being overwhelmed by the surrounding suffering; celebrating Rosh ha-Shanah; her brother's resistance activities (he died in the ghetto uprising); escaping with assistance from a family friend; her mother's parting words (she never saw her again); hiding with a Christian family in Altendorf (Spišská Stará Ves); entering Hungary in 1941; staying with her future husband's aunt in Košice; joining her brother's family in Munkacs; obtaining Hungarian papers; living in Budapest; leaving on the Kasztner train; arrival in Bergen-Belsen; camp life among the Kasztner Jews; traveling to Switzerland in December 1944; working in Cully; living in Zurich and Geneva; joining her sister's family in Israel; marriage in Paris; and emigration to the United States. Mrs. F discusses her reluctance to burden her children with her experiences and fulfilling her promise to her mother to write a book about what happened.
- Author/Creator
- F., Peska, 1920-
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1994
- Interview Date
- February 22, 1994.
- Locale
- Poland
Warsaw
Siedlce (Poland)
Warsaw (Poland)
Kraków (Poland)
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
Israel
Spišská Stará Ves (Slovakia)
Košice (Slovakia)
Mukacheve (Ukraine)
Budapest (Hungary)
Zurich (Switzerland)
Geneva (Switzerland)
Paris (France)
- Cite As
- Peska F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2905). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Rappaport, Naomi, interviewer.
- Notes
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Related publication: Going forward : a true story of courage, hope and preserverance / Peska Friedman. -- Brooklyn, New York : Menorah Publications, c1994.
