Lenke L. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Lenke L., who was born in Kemenesmagasi, Hungary in 1912. She recalls attending a Calvinist school; her brother attending university in Vienna due to Hungarian Jewish quotas; his emigration to the United States; anti-Jewish measures under the Arrow Cross; forced relocation with her family to Ja?nosha?za, then Sa?rva?r; her mother's death; deportation to Auschwitz; pervasive hunger; transfer to Allendorf; slave labor in a munitions factory; she and her cousins being liberated by United States troops; returning home; visiting her mother's grave; finding her home destroyed; joining cousins in another city; marriage; confiscation of her husband's business under the communists; antisemitic harassment; escaping during the 1956 revolution; and emigration to the United States. Mrs. L. discusses persistent nightmares; her increasing sense of loss as she grows older; sharing her memories, which are never-healing wounds, with fellow survivors; and antipathy toward Hungary, which she defines as her birthplace, not her homeland.

1 videocassette (3/4" u-matic)