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Judy F. Holocaust testimony (HVT-211) interviewed by Robert Prince and Susanna Neumann,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-211

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Judy F., who was born in Czechoslovakia in 1929. She describes her childhood in a small, Hungarian-speaking town; the gathering of the town's Jews in a synagogue in April 1944; and her transport, with family members, to Auschwitz in a cattle car. She recalls conditions at Auschwitz; being taken to Birkenau, where she worked in the Canada kommando, sorting belongings; the camp's evacuation and liberation by Russians; and her emaciated condition upon liberation. She remembers returning to Budapest to search for her father; meeting her present husband and his sister; her year-long stay at an American-supported displaced persons camp in Germany; her move in 1947 to Stuttgart; and her arrival in the United States. She relates her postwar problems; her belief in God; and thoughts on telling her story to her children.
Author/Creator: F., Judy, 1929-
Published: New York, N.Y. : Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale, 1982
Interview Date: October 31, 1982.
Locale: Czechoslovakia
Stuttgart (Germany)
Cite As: Judy F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-211). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Prince, Robert, interviewer.
Neumann, Susanna, interviewer.
Notes: Unpublished finding aid availble in repository; 1/2 in. VHS is linked to finding aid by time coding.

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., 12 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Survivor-child relations.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Psychological aspects. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Moral and ethical aspects. Czechoslovakia. Stuttgart (Germany) Refugee camps. Oral histories (document genres) F., Judy,--1929- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp)

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/801235
Record last modified:: 2018-05-30 11:45:00
This page:: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt801235

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