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Sarah P. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3964) interviewed by Peter Salner and Ingrid Antalová,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-3964

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Sarah P., who was born in Košice, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1927, one of two children in a secular family. She recounts living in Liberec from 1933 to 1938; returning to Košice; Hungarian occupation; her father's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; a Hungarian friend offering to hide her and her mother; refusing since her mother would not leave her son and Ms. P. would not leave her mother; round-up to a brick factory in spring 1944; non-Jews bringing them food; deportation two weeks later to Birkenau; separation from her mother and brother; a severe beating by a Polish woman; transfer two months later to Zillerthal-Erdmannsdorf; slave labor in a textile factory; improved conditions; another prisoner giving birth to a child who was taken away; escaping from a death march in February 1945; a German suggesting she go to a nearby village and not reveal she was a Jew (she was wearing civilian clothing); returning to Liberec by train; working for a family who took her to Kladruby; liberation; returning to Košice; distress at learning her brother perished after liberation and that her parents had both been killed; illegal emigration to Palestine; living on a kibbutz from 1949 to 1957; and leaving with her husband and two children.
    Author/Creator
    P., Sarah , 1923-
    Published
    Bratislava, Slovakia : Milan Šimečka Foundation, 1997
    Interview Date
    November 16, 1997.
    Locale
    Czechoslovakia
    Košice (Slovakia)
    Liberec (Czech Republic)
    Kladruby (Plzeň, Czech Republic)
    Palestine
    Cite As
    Sarah P. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3964). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Salner, Peter, interviewer.
    Antalová, Ingrid, interviewer.
    Notes
    This testimony is in Slovak.

    Physical Details

    Language
    Slovak
    Copies
    3 copies: 1/2 in. VHS master; Betacam SP submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
    Physical Description
    1 videorecording (1 hr., 15 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Hungarian occupation.
    Childbirth in concentration camps.
    Aid by non-Jews.
    Hiding.
    Postwar experiences.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4564198
    Record last modified:
    2018-05-30 11:27:00
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