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Helen F. Holocaust testimony (HVT-456) interviewed by Lee Rosenberg,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-456

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Helen F., who was born in approximately 1930 in Crăciunești, Romania, an only child. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; a happy childhood; attending theater in Sighet; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; her father's trip to Košice in 1944 (she never saw him again); transfer to a ghetto in April; deportation to Auschwitz in May; separation from her mother (she never saw her again); crying all the time; losing her belief in God; smuggling herself to her cousins' block; transfer a month later with four friends to a camp in Germany; slave labor in a munitions factory, then digging trenches; a back injury from which she still suffers; a beating by the guards; train transport; Allied bombings; a Wehrmacht soldier assisting her wounded friend; a death march; liberation by British troops; returning home via Bratislava and Budapest; threats from non-Jewish neighbors living in her home; living with cousins in Velykyy Bychkiv; moving to Germany in 1946; marriage; living in Frankfurt; and emigration to the United States in 1949. Ms. F. notes not sharing her experiences until a 1981 survivor gathering in Jerusalem; sharing her experiences with her son; pervasive painful memories; health problems resulting from the camps; and re-attaining her belief in God.
    Author/Creator
    F., Helen, 1930?-
    Published
    Cleveland, Ohio : National Council of Jewish Women, Holocaust Archive Project, 1984
    Interview Date
    December 11, 1984.
    Locale
    Romania
    Crăciunești (Romania)
    Bratislava (Slovakia)
    Budapest (Hungary)
    Velykyĭ Bychkiv (Ukraine)
    Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
    Sighet (Romania)
    Cite As
    Helen F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-456). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Copies
    2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
    Physical Description
    1 videorecording (2 hr., 6 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Hungarian occupation.
    Postwar experiences.
    Child survivors.
    Aid by non-Jews.
    Mutual aid.
    Antisemitism Postwar.
    Postwar effects.
    Survivor-child relations.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4293809
    Record last modified:
    2018-05-30 11:44:00
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