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Edith M. Holocaust testimony (HVT-906) interviewed by Irving Gadol and Mark Jacobs,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-906

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Edith M., an only child, who was born in Szeged, Hungary in 1926. She recounts attending public school; antisemitic harassment; German invasion in 1944; anti-Jewish restrictions; attending a Catholic school due to her mother's friendship with the school's head; a nun offering to hide her; refusing, not wanting to leave her parents; ghettoization; round-up to a brick factory; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in June; selection for work with her mother (she never saw her father or grandmother again); hospitalization; assistance from her mother's friend in the hospital; release; not finding her mother; transfer to Lenzing; slave labor in a factory; assistance from a German guard; debilitating illness; liberation by United States troops; pain resulting from rich food provided by the liberators (many died from it); hospitalization; traveling to Vienna; assistance from a Soviet soldier; returning to Szeged; return of family jewelry from a non-Jewish neighbor; finishing school; assistance from the Joint; illegal emigration to Palestine via Budapest and Romania; capture by the British; six weeks incarceration; marriage; the births of two children; and emigration to the United States in 1958. Ms. M. discusses psychological difficulties, including guilt for "abandoning" her parents when she was hospitalized. She shows photographs and jewelry recovered after the war.
    Author/Creator
    M., Edith, 1926-
    Published
    Dallas, Tex. : Memorial Center for Holocaust Studies, 1987
    Interview Date
    January 24, 1987.
    Locale
    Hungary
    Szeged
    Szeged (Hungary)
    Vienna (Austria)
    Palestine
    Budapest (Hungary)
    Romania
    Cite As
    Edith M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-906). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Gadol, Irving, 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.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Child survivors.
    Antisemitism Prewar.
    Mutual aid.
    Aid by non-Jews.
    Hospitals in concentration camps.
    Postwar experiences.
    Postwar effects.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4294458
    Record last modified:
    2018-06-04 13:28:00
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