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Fanny K. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1137) interviewed by Bernard Weinstein and Dvorah Lichstein,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1137

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Fanny K., who was born in Pilipets, Czechoslovakia in 1922. She recalls her father traveling as a shochet; many older brothers and sisters; Hungarian occupation; her brothers' draft into Hungarian labor battalions; regulations forbidding Jews to run stores; helping her sister secretly run a store; brief arrest; hiding with relatives in another town; returning home and hiding; ghettoization; a forced march to Khust; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from everyone but one sister; seeing her brother once from a distance; slave labor in a weaving mill; attempting to observe Yom Kippur; a death march and train transport to Bergen-Belsen; liberation by British troops; hospitalization; her sister's death; Red Cross transfer to Göteborg, Sweden; learning a brother was alive; reunion with him in Prague; meeting her future husband; and emigration to the United States. Ms. K. notes seldom discussing her experiences, even with her brother, because it is too painful.
Author/Creator: K., Fanny, 1922-
Published: Union, N.J. : Kean College Oral Testimonies Project, 1988
Interview Date: November 30, 1988.
Locale: Pilipets (Ukraine)
Czechoslovakia
Khust (Ukraine)
Göteborg (Sweden)
Prague (Czech Republic)
Cite As: Fanny K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1137). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Weinstein, Bernard, interviewer.
Lichstein, Dvorah, interviewer.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (1 hr., 7 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Postwar experiences.
Hiding.
Mutual aid.
Hungarian occupation.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jewish ghettos. Sisters. Brothers and sisters. Forced labor. Concentration camp inmates--Religious life. Death marches. Pilipets (Ukraine) Czechoslovakia. Khust (Ukraine) Göteborg (Sweden) Prague (Czech Republic) Oral histories (document genres) K., Fanny,--1922- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: 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/4294819
Record last modified:: 2018-05-30 11:44:00
This page:: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4294819

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