Marta M. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3862)

Videotape testimony of Marta M., who was born in Kolta, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1924, one of nine children. She recalls starting school in 1933; Hungarian occupation; her father's death; draft of her older brothers into Hungarian slave labor battalions; transfer to the Šurany ghetto; forced labor harvesting carrots; transfer to Komárom for two weeks, then to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation with her younger sister from her mother and brother upon arrival; sorting rocks in a quarry; her sister's hospitalization; a female Hungarian physician saving her; assignment with a friend to a children's camp for six weeks; transfer with her sister to a factory in Germany; deportation to Theresienstadt in April; liberation by Soviet troops; returning to their uncle's home in Galanta, then to Kolta; marriage in Strekov to a survivor who had lost his wife and children; the births of two children and four grandchildren; her daughter and her son's son living in Israel; and her husband's death. Ms. M. discusses her continuing belief in God through the camps and until the present; mental scars resulting from her experiences; sharing her experiences with her children and grandchildren; and how quickly she can convey her experiences, though they were interminable while she was living them. She shows photographs.