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Susan P. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3149) interviewed by Steven Gonzer and Rose Magel,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-3149

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Susan P., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1938. She recounts her father's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1940; his return a few months later; his conscription in May 1942 (she never saw him again); German occupation in March 1944; her mother obtaining Catholic baptismal papers for them in October; their move to a Swedish safe house; bringing food to her grandmother in the ghetto, posing as non-Jews; her mother bribing a Hungarian policeman with her wedding ring during a round-up; hiding, beginning in November, in a factory, then an apartment; liberation by Soviet troops in January 1945; her mother's remarriage in 1946; her stepfather's death in 1951; and emigrating due to antisemitism after the 1956 revolution. Mrs. P. discusses her lack of fear during the war due to confidence in her mother; the deaths of many relatives; and a deep sense of the loss of her father becoming keener more recently. She shows photographs and documents.
Author/Creator: P., Susan, 1938-
Published: Wilmington, Del. : Halina Wind Preston Holocaust Education Center, 1995
Interview Date: May 25, 1995.
Locale: Hungary
Budapest
Budapest (Hungary)
Cite As: Susan P. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3149). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Gonzer, Steven, interviewer.
Magel, Rose, interviewer.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 4 copies: 3/4 in. dub; Betacam SP restoration master; Betacam SP restoration submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (39 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Child survivors.
Mutual aid.
Safe houses.
Hiding.
Postwar experiences.
Postwar effects.
Antisemitism Postwar.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Jewish children in the Holocaust. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Hungary--Budapest. Mothers and daughters. Hungary. Budapest (Hungary) Oral histories (document genres) P., Susan,--1938-

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
Special Collection: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

Link to Yale University Library Catalog:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4290810
Record last modified:: 2018-05-30 11:44:00
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