- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Vera M., who was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in April 1920. She recalls her assimilated childhood in Proseč; attending school in Vysoké Mýto; antisemitic incidents; transfering to schools in Prague, then Jeseník; anti-Jewish restrictions, including her father's expulsion from a club and expropriation of their house in 1939; living in Prague with her sister; marriage in October 1941; her husband's deportation to Theresienstadt in December; voluntarily following him ten days later; sharing food; forced labor; sham improvements for a Red Cross visit; her parents' and sister's arrival in December 1942; their deportation to Auschwitz in December 1943; her mother's letter warning her not to leave Theresienstadt; volunteering to accompany her husband to Auschwitz; their separation upon arrival; random killings; transfer with her aunt to a munitions factory in Freiberg; sabotaging production; her aunt and others assisting her when she was in the infirmary; train evacuation in April 1945; a childbirth on the train; receiving food from bystanders in Klatovy; arrival at Mauthausen; and liberation by United States troops. Mrs. M. recounts transport to České Budějovice, then Prague with her aunt in May 1945; living in Proseč; learning her husband and family had perished; and marriage in Prague in June 1946. She shows photographs.
- Author/Creator
- M., Vera, 1920-
- Published
- Prague, Czech Republic : Nadace Film & Sociologie, 1996
- Interview Date
- January 22, 1996.
- Locale
- Czech Republic
Prague (Czech Republic)
Proseč (Chrudim, Czech Republic)
Vysoké Mýto (Czech Republic)
Jeseník (Czech Republic)
Klatovy (Czech Republic)
České Budějovice (Czech Republic)
- Cite As
- Vera M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3357). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Hyndráková, Anna, interviewer.
- Notes
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This testimony is in Czech.
