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Agnes S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-103) interviewed by Laurel Vlock,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-103

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Agnes S., who was born in Budapest in 1925. She speaks of the German occupation of Budapest; of her work as a slave laborer in a mill in Budapest; deportations from the brick factory in which she and her mother were interned, but from which they were spared through the intervention of Raoul Wallenberg; their internment in the ghetto of Budapest in December, 1944 and liberation there in January 1945; the illegal departure of herself, her husband, and her son from communist Hungary in 1949 and their emigration to the United States in 1956. The physical and psychological effects of her wartime experiences and wartime resistance in Hungary are also discussed.
Author/Creator: S., Agnes, 1925-
Published: Boston, Mass. : Holocaust Survivors Film Project, 1980
Interview Date: July 23, 1980.
Locale: Hungary
Budapest
Budapest (Hungary)
Cite As: Agnes S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-103). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Vlock, Laurel, interviewer.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 3 copies: 3/4 in. master; 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (1 hr.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Aid by non-Jews.
Subjects: Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Forced labor. Jews--Hungary--Budapest. World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue. Holocaust survivors. Jewish ghettos. Hungary. Budapest (Hungary) Oral histories (document genres) Wallenberg, Raoul,--1912-1947. S., Agnes,--1925-

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/616797
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:28:00
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