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Judith S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1263) interviewed by Lawrence L. Langer and Lucille B. Ritvo,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1263

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Judith S., who was born in Szeged, Hungary, in 1929, and raised in nearby Kiskundorozsma. Mrs. S. recalls tacit and overt antisemitism in pre-occupation Hungary; her family's deportation to Szeged in June 1944; a Christian family that offered to hide her; priests who offered conversion to detainees; transport with her family to Strasshof; camp living conditions; and forced labor at several sites, including a farm near Pravice, a sugar mill in Hrus̆ovany, and digging tank traps. She tells of the family's escape from a death march during a Soviet attack; hiding; liberation; returning to Szeged; the death of her father in spring 1946; marriage; emigration to the United States in 1968; and the effects of her experience on her personal philosophical outlook in which she successively became an atheist, a zionist, a communist, and finally, "just a person."
Author/Creator: S., Judith, 1929-
Published: New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1989
Interview Date: June 27, 1989.
Locale: Hungary
Szeged (Hungary)
Pravice (Czech Republic)
Hrušovany (Czech Republic)
Kiskundorozsma (Hungary)
Cite As: Judith S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1263). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Langer, Lawrence L., interviewer.
Ritvo, Lucille B.,

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., 45 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Aid by non-Jews.
Antisemitism Prewar.
Child survivors.
Hiding.
Postwar effects.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Families. Forced labor. Hungary. Szeged (Hungary) Oral histories (document genres) Death marches. Pravice (Czech Republic) Hrušovany (Czech Republic) Kiskundorozsma (Hungary) S., Judith,--1929- Strasshof (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/982280
Record last modified:: 2018-05-29 11:47:00
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