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Sidonia B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-488) interviewed by Abraham Kay,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-488

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Sidona B., who was born in 1924 in Cărășeu, Romania, one of eight children. She recounts her family was Hasidic; her father serving as a shoḥet; attending public school; working on the family farm; delivering kosher butter to Satu Mare; her sister's marriage in 1937; Hungarian occupation; her brother's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; round-up, then transfer to the Satu Mare ghetto in April 1944; deportation to Auschwitz in May; remaining with two sisters after selection (she never saw the rest of her family again); slave labor with two Czech women; doing their work when her sister and one of the women were sick; transfer to Stutthof, then three weeks later to Praust; slave labor constructing an airport; American POWs leaving food for them; her older sister's selection (she never saw her again); a death march; locals giving her bread; escaping with her sister; a Polish man hiding them and giving them food; liberation by Soviet troops; hospitalization in Gdańsk; living briefly in a refugee camp; returning home; reunion with her brother; marriage; some non-Jews returning their possessions, and some not; the births of her children; her brother's emigration to the United States; and joining him in 1965. Ms. B. discusses never losing hope in the camps; not sharing her experiences with her children because it is too painful; and nightmares, which have diminished lately.
    Author/Creator
    B., Sidonia, 1924-
    Published
    Cleveland, Ohio : National Council of Jewish Women, Holocaust Archive Project, 1984
    Interview Date
    September 10, 1984.
    Locale
    Romania
    Satu Mare (Județ)
    United States
    Poland
    Cărășeu (Romania)
    Satu Mare (Romania : Județ)
    Gdańsk (Poland)
    Cite As
    Sidonia B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-488). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Kay, Abraham, interviewer.

    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., 46 min.] : col

    Keywords & Subjects

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

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4293866
    Record last modified:
    2018-05-29 11:47:00
    This page:
    https:​/​/collections.ushmm.org​/search​/catalog​/hvt4293866

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