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Susan T. Holocaust testimony (HVT-757) interviewed by Frances Proctor Cohen,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-757

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Susan T., who was born in Budapest, Hungary. She describes early edicts against Jews; continuous efforts to obtain American visas for her family; her husband's deportation to a labor camp near the Czech border in 1942, then to one in Russia in 1944; and life in the "open ghetto" in Budapest. She relates the German occupation of Hungary in March 1944; anti-Jewish legislation and increased deportations under Eichmann's supervision; restrictive conditions in German-occupied Budapest; the forced march to a brick factory outside Budapest; and the negotiation of the group's release by Raoul Wallenberg. She tells of the establishment of an "international ghetto" in Budapest; liberation by the Russians in January 1945; her husband's escape from a Russian prison camp; and their emigration to the United States in 1948.
Author/Creator: T., Susan.
Published: New Haven, Conn. : Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale, 1986
Interview Date: June 18, 1986.
Locale: Hungary
Budapest
Budapest (Hungary)
Cite As: Susan T. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-757). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Cohen, Frances Proctor, 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 (2 hr., 41 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

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

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/967660
Record last modified:: 2018-05-30 11:33:00
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