Miriam A. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 0650
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Miriam A., who was born in Hungary, one of eight children. She recounts her father's position as a Hebrew teacher in Nyi?rba?tor; her brothers' draft into Hungarian slave labor battalions; studying nursing in Budapest; returning home in 1942; German invasion in 1944; ghettoization; deportation with her family to Auschwitz four weeks later; separation from her family, except her sister, in Birkenau; transfer to Dachau in August; and liberation by United States troops in April 1945. She shows a photograph of one of the men who liberated her.

Extent and Medium

3 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)

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

  • A., Miriam.

Corporate Bodies

  • Dachau (Concentration camp)
  • Birkenau (Concentration camp)
  • Auschwitz (Concentration camp)

Subjects

  • Women.
  • Video tapes.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • Sisters.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.

Places

  • Nyírbátor (Hungary)
  • Budapest (Hungary)
  • Hungary.

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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