Zuzana H. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3350) interviewed by Anna Lorencová,
Videotape testimony of Zuzana H., who was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1927. She describes attending English school; expulsion due to anti-Jewish laws; her father being fired (he was a physician); deportation to Theresienstadt with her parents in July 1943; their deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in September; her father's selection to work as a doctor in the family camp; working as a nurse with her mother; the family camp liquidation in March 1944 (only medical staff was spared); transfer to a women's camp with her mother; assistance from an Austrian doctor; providing bread and water to new arrivals; their evacuation on January 18, 1945; transfer by open train to Ravensbrück, then Neustadt-Glewe; becoming ill; a friend helping her in the infirmary; liberation by United States troops in May; moving into the town; and traveling to Dresden, then Prague. Ms. H. discusses learning her father had perished in Buchenwald; difficulties living "normally" after her experiences; the importance to her survival of being with her mother; yearly reunions with those spared from the family camp liquidation; and heightened appreciation for food and cleanliness due to her camp experiences.
- Published
- Prague, Czech Republic : Nadace Film & Sociologie, 1996
- Interview Date
- January 15, 1996.
- Locale
- Czech Republic
Prague (Czech Republic)
Dresden (Germany) - Language
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Czech
- Copies
- 2 copies: Betacam SP dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Cite As
- Zuzana H. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3350). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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View in Yale University Library Catalog: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4291319
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