Hermina H. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Hermina H., who was born in Uz?h?horod, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) to a family of five daughters. She recalls her Hungarian, rather than Czech, sense of identity; beginning to work in 1938; Hungarian occupation; antisemitic laws; her father's death in 1939; German invasion in March 1944; ghettozation in a brick factory; deportation to Auschwitz in June; maneuvering to stay with three of her sisters; learning her mother and other family members had been gassed; starvation and selections; receiving clothes from her mother's cousin; transfer to Stutthof; being beaten for the first time; transfer to Torun?; slave labor digging trenches; one sister being shot on a death march; internment in Krone prison; and liberation by Soviet troops. Mrs. H. recounts living in Bydgoszcz; returning to Uz?h?horod; reunion with her brother-in-law; moving to Czechoslovakia; marriage; and emigration to Argentina, then the United States. She discusses happy memories of Uz?h?horod as well as lingering sadness, loneliness, and nightmares. She shows family photographs.

2 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)