Hilda P. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Hilda P., who lived in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy prior to World War I, then in Karlsbad, Czechoslovakia (Karolovy Vary). She recalls moving to Prague; working as a tutor; German occupation; marriage in 1940; her husband's internment; deportation to Theresienstadt in February 1943; slave labor in a uniform factory; transfer to a prison in Prague in February 1944, then to Vittel; receiving Red Cross packages; liberation; traveling to Paris, then to Prague; reunion with her husband; living in Munich, then in a displaced persons camp; and emigration to the United States. Ms. P. discusses reluctance to share her experiences and sleep difficulties resulting from her experiences. She shows photographs, documents and a book.
Extent and Medium
3 videocassettes
Conditions Governing Access
This testimony is open with permission.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.
Rules and Conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- P., Hilda.
Corporate Bodies
- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
- Vittel (Concentration camp)
- Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Postwar experiences.
- Postwar effects.
- Forced labor.
- Refugee camps.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic)
- Prague (Czech Republic)
- Austria.
- Karlsbad (Czech Republic)
- Paris (France)
- Munich (Germany)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat