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Oral history interview with Agnes Sassoon

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.34 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0034

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    Oral history interview with Agnes Sassoon

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Agnes Sasoon describes her early life in Czechoslovakia, circa 1933 to 1939; her father's work as a teacher; Hitler's visit to her Kindergarten in 1938; attending Jewish school; living in Budapest, Hungary from 1939 to 1944; her father's attempts to help refugees; living in a yellow star house; antisemitism; the difficulties of everyday life; the arrest and transportation of children from her Jewish school in late 1944; being in a camp on the outskirts of Budapest; the suggestion by an Arrow Cross guard that she escape; the efforts of her father to save the family; being sent on a march; deciding not to attempt an escape; food rations; a blessing from a Roman Catholic Bishop; the train journey to Dachau and conditions in the trucks; the cleaning out of the trucks; the bombing of the train; her prior knowledge of concentration camps; arriving in the camp; receiving assistance from an experienced inmate; conditions in the camp; food rations; the relationships between inmates; sanitation; working in a kitchen and a farm; punishments for stealing grain from the farm; the Jewish Kapos; the shooting of a friend, Alex; the punishment for keeping a diary; being in a sample camp shown to Red Cross and the better conditions there; dental treatment; her psychological state; marching to Bergen-Belsen in 1945; being shot by a guard and rescued by Germans and French POWs; being taken to Bergen-Belsen for treatment; her internment at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp; the corpses littering the camp; the dehumanization of Jews in the camp; being liberated by the British in April 1945; being rescued from a pile of corpses; being treated in a hospital; her diet; refusing to testify against a SS guard; her attitude towards revenge; being cared for by Major Chutter; her post war life; the emotional impact of her Holocaust experience; resistance in the camps; reuniting with family; and her immigration to Israel.
    Interviewee
    Agnes Sassoon
    Date
    interview:  1985 October

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    3 sound cassettes (90 min.).

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
    Conditions on Use
    Restrictions on use. Permission to copy and/or use recordings in any production must be granted by the Imperial War Museums.

    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Sassoon, Agnes.

    Administrative Notes

    Holder of Originals
    Imperial War Museum
    Provenance
    The interview was conducted by the Imperial War Museum as part of their retrospective oral history interview program. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum acquired a copy of the interview with Agnes Sasoon from the Imperial War Museum in February 1995.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:17:27
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