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Lenke L. Holocaust testimony (HVT-898) interviewed by Peggy Morton,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-898

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Lenke L., who was born in Kemenesmagasi, Hungary in 1912. She recalls attending a Calvinist school; her brother attending university in Vienna due to Hungarian Jewish quotas; his emigration to the United States; anti-Jewish measures under the Arrow Cross; forced relocation with her family to Jánosháza, then Sárvár; her mother's death; deportation to Auschwitz; pervasive hunger; transfer to Allendorf; slave labor in a munitions factory; she and her cousins being liberated by United States troops; returning home; visiting her mother's grave; finding her home destroyed; joining cousins in another city; marriage; confiscation of her husband's business under the communists; antisemitic harassment; escaping during the 1956 revolution; and emigration to the United States. Mrs. L. discusses persistent nightmares; her increasing sense of loss as she grows older; sharing her memories, which are never-healing wounds, with fellow survivors; and antipathy toward Hungary, which she defines as her birthplace, not her homeland.
    Author/Creator
    L., Lenke, 1912-
    Published
    New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1987
    Interview Date
    May 17, 1987.
    Locale
    Hungary
    Kemenesmagasi (Hungary)
    Sárvár (Hungary)
    Jánosháza (Hungary)
    Cite As
    Lenke L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-898). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Morton, Peggy, interviewer.
    Notes
    This testimony is in Hungarian.

    Physical Details

    Language
    Hungarian
    Copies
    3 copies: 3/4 in. master; 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
    Physical Description
    1 videorecording (56 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Antisemitism Prewar.
    Postwar experiences.
    Postwar effects.
    Antisemitism Postwar.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4294446
    Record last modified:
    2018-05-29 11:47:00
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