Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Edith S., who was born in Solotvyno, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1925, one of two daughters. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; attending Hebrew school; antisemitic harassment; her father's draft into the Czech military; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; her father's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; his return in 1943; her parents' arrest; ghettoization; her parents' return (her father had been tortured); her parents' re-arrest; her mother's return; bringing her father food (she never saw him again); deportation with her mother and sister to Auschwitz; separation from them (she never saw them again); losing hope; an aunt finding her; moving to her barrack; her aunt forcing her to eat; transfer three weeks later to Frankfurt; slave labor constructing roads and airplane hangers; Allied bombings; a death march to Ravensbrück; transfer to another camp two weeks later; slave labor in a munitions factory; improved conditions; transfer to a knitting factory in Jablonec nad Jizerou; liberation; hospitalization in Prague; assistance from the Joint; returning to Solotvyno; and learning her immediate family had been killed. Ms. S. notes losing her belief in God during the war, but regaining it; marriage to a survivor; and the births of her three daughters.
- Published
- Cleveland, Ohio : National Council of Jewish Women, Holocaust Archive Project, 1984
- Interview Date
- August 22, 1984.
- Locale
- Czechoslovakia
Solotvyno (Ukraine)
Jablonec nad Jizerou (Czech Republic)
Prague (Czech Republic) - Cite As
- Edith S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-470). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 4 copies: 3/4 in. master; Betacam SP restoration master; Betacam SP restoration submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (2 hr., 53 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Child survivors.
Antisemitism Prewar.
Hungarian occupation.
Mutual aid.
Postwar experiences. - 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. Faith. Forced labor. Concentration camp inmates--Family relationships. Concentration camps--Psychological aspects. Death marches. Czechoslovakia. Solotvyno (Ukraine) Jablonec nad Jizerou (Czech Republic) Prague (Czech Republic) Oral histories (document genres) S., Edith,--1925- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Ravensbrück (Concentration camp) American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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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/4293835
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:25:00
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