Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Judith K., who was born in Piešt̕any, Czechoslovakia in 1937, the youngest of six children. She recalls her family's affluence; her father taking them to Bratislava to avoid deportation; his arrest, escape from Žilina, and taking the family to hide on a farm; returning to Bratislava; their incarceration in Žilina; her father using bribery to obtain their release and false papers; living in the town of Žilina as non-Jews; the deportation of her parents and two siblings; an aunt arranging for the remaining children to be smuggled to Hungary; living illegally in Budapest; arrest and imprisonment; release in 1942 when guards were bribed; living with foster parents; moving with them to a Swedish safe house in 1944; their discovery; German execution of all the residents; being saved by the Red Cross before it was "their turn" to be shot; liberation by Soviet troops; her stepmother's death; her stepfather's remarriage; living in an orphanage in Nové Mesto nad Váhom; maintaining her Jewish identity while in a convent school; being taken to London by Rabbi Solomon Schonfeld; her siblings' emigration to Israel; joining them in 1951; marriage; and emigration to the United States. Mrs. K. shows photographs.
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1990
- Interview Date
- December 6, 1990.
- Locale
- Slovakia
Czechoslovakia
Piešt̕any (Slovakia)
Bratislava (Slovakia)
Žilina (Slovakia)
Budapest (Hungary)
Nové Mesto nad Váhom (Slovakia)
London (England)
Israel - Cite As
- Judith K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1733). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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., 25 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Child survivors.
Hiding.
Aid by non-Jews.
False papers.
Safe houses.
Mass killings.
Postwar experiences. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Brothers and sisters. Jews--Migrations. Refugees, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Hungarian. Foster parents. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Orphanages--Slovakia. Convents. Identification (Religion) Czechoslovakia. Piešt̕any (Slovakia) Bratislava (Slovakia) Žilina (Slovakia) Budapest (Hungary) Nové Mesto nad Váhom (Slovakia) London (England) Israel. Oral histories (document genres) K., Judith,--1937- Schonfeld, Solomon,--1912- Žilina (Concentration camp) International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
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/4317582
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:25:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4317582
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