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Oral history interview with Judit Herskovitz

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.378 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0378

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    Oral history interview with Judit Herskovitz

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Judith (Judit) Herskovitz, born in 1928 in Tiszadada, Hungary, discusses being the oldest of three children; attending a Catholic school; cordial relations with non-Jews; her father's military draft in 1939, then his transfer to a Hungarian slave labor battalion; anti-Jewish restrictions impacting the family's business; German invasion in 1944; round-up to the synagogue; deportation to Nyáregyháza, then two weeks later to a warehouse; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; separation from her brother, mother, and grandmother; forced labor carrying stones outside the camp; seeing her brother from afar; separation from her sister; receiving a letter from her mother; a prisoner giving her medical treatment; transfer to Torgau; slave labor in a munitions factory; Allied bombing; a death march; begging for food from villagers; liberation by Soviet troops; living in abandoned German homes; hospitalization in Chemnitz for six months; traveling to Berlin, then Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp; joining a kibbutz; returning home briefly, then living in Budapest; immigration to Israel in 1948; sharing her experiences with her children; and the difficulty accepting that her family had been killed. (She shows photographs.)
    Interviewee
    Judit Herskovitz
    Date
    interview:  2000 June 15
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    Hebrew
    Extent
    4 videocasettes (Betacam SP) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Herskovitz, Judit.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak, project director for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Oral History Branch, coordinated the interview with Judit Herskovitz on June 15, 2000. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview on August 31, 2001.
    Funding Note
    The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
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    2023-11-16 08:16:31
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