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Regina S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2952) interviewed by Bonnie Dwork,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2952

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Regina S., who was born in Bushtyna, Czechoslovakia in 1925, one of five children. She recalls attending public and religious schools; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; forced transfer with her family to the Mátészalka ghetto in April 1944; their deportation to Auschwitz; managing to stay with her older sister; a severe beating for taking extra food offered by other prisoners; transfer to Stutthof in September; forced farm labor with her sister and cousins; receiving extra food from one farmer; a death march beginning in February 1945; contracting typhus (her cousins died from it); liberation by Soviet troops; amputation of toes; an extended recuperation; returning to Bushtyna; a futile attempt to recover family property; moving to Prague; reunion with a brother (all other family members had perished); marriage; and emigration to the United States. Mrs. S. discusses her depression after liberation; amazement at what she had survived; and recurring nightmares. She shows documents and photographs.
    Author/Creator
    S., Regina, 1925-
    Published
    New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1994
    Interview Date
    June 22, 1994.
    Locale
    Hungary
    Mátészalka
    Czechoslovakia
    Bushtyno (Ukraine)
    Prague (Czech Republic)
    Cite As
    Regina S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2952). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Dwork, Bonnie, interviewer.

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Copies
    2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
    Physical Description
    1 videorecording (1 hr., 11 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Hungarian occupation.
    Aid by non-Jews.
    Postwar effects.
    Postwar experiences.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4289403
    Record last modified:
    2018-05-30 11:40:00
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