Bertha H. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Bertha H., who was born in Szatma?rcseke, Hungary in 1920 to a family of ten children. She recalls a happy family life; working as a dressmaker; marriage in 1942; her husband's deportation to a work camp six weeks later; German occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; transfer with her family to the Ma?te?szalka ghetto in April 1944; separation from her older sister and mother upon arrival at Auschwitz (she never saw them again); transfer with her two younger sisters to P?aszo?w; concealing her younger sister's deafness; working with her sister in a tailor shop; transfer to Auschwitz; slave labor in Silesia, then Liebau; and liberation by Soviet troops. Mrs. H. describes returning to Szatma?rcseke with her two sisters; joining her husband in Czechoslovakia; and emigrating to the United States in 1949. She discusses her sense that Americans did not want to hear about her experiences; a trip to Hungary and Auschwitz in 1977; and her continuing nightmares.

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