- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Agnes V., who was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1940. She describes her father's cosmopolitan, professional background; her mother's rural, extremely observant background; life in a wealthy Budapest Jewish family; and deportations of relatives to Hungarian labor battalions. She recalls her father's decision to disperse the family in hiding after the 1944 German occupation; posing as a Christian peasant girl; living with her younger sister in a dilapidated section of Budapest; an air raid in which her guardian was wounded; traveling with her guardian to rejoin her mother; German round-ups of Jews; hiding with other Jewish children in the former residence of the mayor of Buda; and the brutal fighting. Mrs. V. recounts a chance reunion with her mother; seeking refuge with a Calvinist pastor who produced false papers; a dream foretelling her grandmother's killing; liberation of Budapest; her father's postwar imprisonment for "Zionist" activities; escape to Vienna during the 1956 Hungarian revolution; and life in the United States.
- Author/Creator
- V., Agnes, 1940-
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale, 1986
- Interview Date
- November 3, 1986.
- Locale
- Hungary
Budapest
Budapest (Hungary)
Vienna (Austria)
- Cite As
- Agnes V. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-775). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Katz, Barbara Hadley, interviewer.
Katz, Helen, interviewer.
