Judith K. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 1733
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

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

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. This testimony cannot be used for commercial purposes.

Rules and Conventions

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Process Info

  • compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

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