Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Margaret S., who was born in Velikiy Rakovets in Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1928, one of four children. She recounts her family's move to Khust when she was an infant; attending public school; Hungarian occupation; her father's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1943 (he did not survive); ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her family (none survived); transfer to Reichenbach; slave labor in a Telefunken factory for eight months; a death march to another camp, then Salzwedel; liberation by United States troops; returning to Khust; discovering only an uncle had survived; moving to the Sudetenland; marriage to a survivor from Khust in 1948; the birth of a child; emigration to Israel via Romania; her daughter's birth in Ḥaderah; living in Netanyah; and emigration to the United States in 1953.
- Published
- Mahwah, N.J. : Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 1996
- Interview Date
- June 21, 1996.
- Locale
- Ukraine
Khust
Czechoslovakia
Velikiy Rakovets (Ukraine)
Khust (Ukraine)
Romania
Ḥaderah (Israel)
Netanyah (Israel) - Cite As
- Margaret S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3485). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 4 copies: 3/4 in. dub; Betacam SP restoration master; Betacam SP restoration submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (44 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Hungarian occupation.
Postwar experiences. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Ukraine--Khust. Forced labor. Death marches. Czechoslovakia. Velikiy Rakovets (Ukraine) Khust (Ukraine) Romania. Ḥaderah (Israel) Netanyah (Israel) Oral histories (document genres) S., Margaret,--1928- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Telefunken G.m.b.H. Salzwedel (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/4297626
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:25:00
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- http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4297626
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