- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Shari B., who was born in Košice, Slovakia, circa 1928. Mrs. B. describes antisemitism and awareness of her Judaism; the German occupation; her inadequate awareness of the events of the war; being smuggled, with her sisters, out of her town and living with a former Jewish maid; and her and her sister's flight to Bratislava, where they hid for several months and where she met her future husband. She tells of the arrest of her sister; her own arrest and weeklong interrogation; her obsessive fear of dying by German hands; and her transfer to a transit camp in Sered,̕ where she was reunited with her sister and from where they were taken to Theresienstadt. Mrs. B. recounts her humiliation and constant thoughts of suicide; her sustaining relationship with her sister; and her liberation by the Russians. She also discusses her marriage and the effects of her experience on herself and her children.
- Author/Creator
- B., Shari, ca. 1928-
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale, 1982
- Interview Date
- November 6, 1982.
- Locale
- Slovakia
Košice (Slovakia)
Bratislava (Slovakia)
- Cite As
- Shari B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-66). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Taffel, Ron, interviewer.
Blechner, Mark, interviewer.
- Notes
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Unpublished finding aid is available in repository; 1/2 in. VHS is linked to finding aid by time coding.
Associated material: Helen M. Holocaust testimony [sister] (HVT-184), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
