Laura G. Holocaust Testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Laura G., who was born in Michalovce, Czechoslovakia in 1917, one of ten children. She recalls her comfortable, orthodox childhood; moving to Prague in 1937 to learn dressmaking; returning home in 1938; German occupation; antisemitic restrictions; illegally entering Hungary in 1942; staying with relatives in Uz?h?horod, Seredne, and Mukacheve; obtaining false papers; living in Budapest as a non-Jew; joining her family in Liptovsky? Mikula?s?; moving to Poruba; hiding with other Jews in bunkers in the Tatra Mountains; raids by Hlinka Guards; relocating to Hra?dok; arrest with her family in January 1945; imprisonment in Liptovsky? Mikula?s?; transfer to Sered;? seeing her father for the last time; deportation with her mother and sister to Ravensbru?ck; forced labor for Siemens; her mother's death; transfer with her sister to Bergen-Belsen; assistance from a kind block leader; good relations with non-Jewish prisoners; contracting typhus; liberation by British troops; convalescing with her sister in Malmo? and Go?teborg, Sweden; learning her father and four sisters had perished; visiting her surviving siblings in Michalovce; emigration to the United States; and marriage to a survivor. Mrs. G. discusses lingering sadness; her guilt that she survived when so many family members were killed; and reluctance to share her story with her children.
Extent and Medium
3 videocassettes
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- G., Laura, -- 1917-
Corporate Bodies
- Sered (Concentration camp)
- Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
- Siemans Aktiengesellschaft.
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
- Hlinkova slovenská l̕udová strana.
Subjects
- Bunkers.
- Postwar effects.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Mutual aid.
- Postwar experiences.
- Hiding.
- False papers.
- Forced labor.
- Fathers and daughters.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Family.
- Sisters.
- Concentration camps -- Sociological aspects.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Hungarian.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Poruba (Slovakia)
- Tatra Mountains (Slovakia and Poland)
- Budapest (Hungary)
- Liptovský Mikuláš (Slovakia)
- Uz︠h︡horod (Ukraine)
- Mukacheve (Ukraine)
- Prague (Czech Republic)
- Seredne (Ukraine)
- Michalovce (Slovakia)
- Czechoslovakia.
- Hrádok (Slovakia)
- Malmö (Sweden)
- Göteborg (Sweden)
- Vysoké Tatry (Slovakia and Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat