Judith K. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Judith K., who was born in Pies?t?any, Czechoslovakia in 1937, the youngest of six children. She recalls her family's affluence; her father taking them to Bratislava to avoid deportation; his arrest, escape from Z?ilina, and taking the family to hide on a farm; returning to Bratislava; their incarceration in Z?ilina; her father using bribery to obtain their release and false papers; living in the town of Z?ilina as non-Jews; the deportation of her parents and two siblings; an aunt arranging for the remaining children to be smuggled to Hungary; living illegally in Budapest; arrest and imprisonment; release in 1942 when guards were bribed; living with foster parents; moving with them to a Swedish safe house in 1944; their discovery; German execution of all the residents; being saved by the Red Cross before it was "their turn" to be shot; liberation by Soviet troops; her stepmother's death; her stepfather's remarriage; living in an orphanage in Nove? Mesto nad Va?hom; maintaining her Jewish identity while in a convent school; being taken to London by Rabbi Solomon Schonfeld; her siblings' emigration to Israel; joining them in 1951; marriage; and emigration to the United States. Mrs. K. shows photographs.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Process Info
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People
- Schonfeld, Solomon, -- 1912-
- K., Judith, -- 1937-
Corporate Bodies
- Žilina (Concentration camp)
- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
Subjects
- Hiding.
- Child survivors.
- False papers.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Mass killings.
- Safe houses.
- Postwar experiences.
- Convents.
- Identification (Religion)
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Orphanages -- Slovakia.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Hungarian.
- Foster parents.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- Refugees, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Brothers and sisters.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Israel.
- Czechoslovakia.
- Bratislava (Slovakia)
- Piešt̕any (Slovakia)
- Budapest (Hungary)
- Žilina (Slovakia)
- London (England)
- Nové Mesto nad Váhom (Slovakia)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat