LEADER 05088cpd a2200661 a 4500001 4655744 005 20180530112758.0 008 980731s1996 ctu fre d 035 HVT-4041 035 4655744 035 |9FNK3686YL 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)1005119044 090 |bHVT-4041 100 1 D., Martha, |d1923- 245 10 Martha D. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4041) |h[videorecording] / |cinterviewed by Yannis Thanassekos and Michel Rosenfeldt, |fNovember 18 and December 9, 1996. 260 Brussels, Belgium : |bFondation Auschwitz, |c1996. 300 2 videorecordings (5 hr., 4 min. and 2 hr., 14 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Martha D., who was born in Sátoraljaújhely, Hungary in 1923, the second of four daughters. She recalls her family's poverty; leaving school in 1937; German invasion in March 1944; ghettoization; the disappearance of one sister; deportation with her family in May to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her parents (she never saw them again); she and her sisters remaining together; transfer to Bergen-Belsen in the fall; an SS woman assisting her care for her sick sister; transfer to Braunschweig in December; slave labor clearing bombing rubble; starvation, illness, and lice infestation; becoming inured to pervasive deaths and corpses; Wehrmacht guards allowing them to find extra food; transfer in December to Beendorf; slave labor in an underground factory; separation from one sister during train evacuation (she did not survive); transfer to Langenhorn, then two weeks later to Altona; evacuation by the Swedish Red Cross to Denmark, then Sweden (her sister was too ill to come); hospitalization for two years; attempts to verify her sister was alive; hearing from her fourteen months later; joining an aunt in Belgium in 1947; marriage; and the births of three children. Ms. D. discusses the importance of being with her sisters to her survival; struggling with depression due to her experiences; not sharing them with anyone, including her husband and children; visiting her sister in Romania and her hometown in 1960; and knowing there is much she does not remember. 546 This testimony is in French. 524 Martha D. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4041). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 562 |e2 copies: |bBetacam SP dub; |band 1/2 in. VHS with time coding. 600 10 D., Martha, |d1923- 610 20 Auschwitz (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96112360 610 20 Birkenau (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96068007 610 20 Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96065702 610 24 Braunschweig (Concentration camp) 610 24 Beendorf (Concentration camp) 610 20 Svenska röda korset. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82096157 650 0 Holocaust survivors. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061527 650 0 Video tapes. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143214 650 0 Women. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85147274 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |vPersonal narratives. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061518 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |vPersonal narratives, Jewish. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148465 650 0 Jewish ghettos. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95007077 650 0 Jews |zHungary |zSátoraljaújhely. 650 0 Sisters. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85123008 650 0 Concentration camps |xPsychological aspects. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85029590 650 0 Forced labor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453 651 0 Hungary. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79053090 651 0 Sátoraljaújhely (Hungary) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82211215 651 0 Sweden. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021184 651 0 Denmark. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021597 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 690 4 Mutual aid. 690 4 Aid by non-Jews. 690 4 Postwar experiences. 690 4 Postwar effects. 690 4 Survivor-child relations. 691 4 Sátoraljaújhely ghetto. 691 4 Langenhorn (Germany : Concentration camp) 691 4 Hamburg-Altona (Germany : Concentration camp) 700 1 Rosenfeldt, Michel, |einterviewer. 700 1 Thanassekos, Yannis, |einterviewer. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80110927 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b5048093 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.4041) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/h41jh3d78m 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/