- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Susan B., who was born in 1924 in Topoĺčany, Czechoslovakia. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; her father's medical practice; gradual anti-Jewish restrictions enforced by Hlinka guards; assistance from her father's pharmacist colleagues; a non-Jewish neighbor warning them teenage girls were to be deported; she and her cousin being smuggled into Hungary via Sered; assistance from relatives in Galanta; traveling to Budapest; living with her grandparents; her parents' arrival; living on false papers; arrest; incarceration with Hannah Szenes; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her father; assignment with her mother to the sewing room; hospitalization; her father obtaining medication for her; a death march to Ravensbrück; her mother's assistance en route; their transfer to Neustadt/Glewe; encouragement from French POWs; liberation by Soviet troops; walking to Ludwigslust; living in Celle displaced persons camp; assistance from the Red Cross to travel to Prague, then Bratislava; reunion with her father in Budapest; returning home; studying medicine in Bratislava; meeting her future husband; antisemitism; emigrating to the United States; and marriage. Ms. B. discusses writing her experiences immediately after the war; lack of interest by others at that time; inability to laugh or cry for a long time; frequent discussions with her parents about their past; and sharing her story with her daughter. She shows documents.
- Author/Creator
- B., Susan, 1924-
- Published
- Cleveland, Ohio : National Council of Jewish Women, Holocaust Archive Project, 1984
- Interview Date
- August 10, 1984.
- Locale
- Germany
Czechoslovakia
Topol̕čany (Slovakia)
Sered̕ (Slovakia)
Galanta (Slovakia)
Budapest (Hungary)
Ludwigslust (Germany : Landkreis)
Celle (Germany)
Prague (Czech Republic)
Bratislava (Slovakia)
- Cite As
- Susan B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-343). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Freedheim, Donald K., interviewer.
