Edith B. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 2069
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Edith B., who was born in Kon?us?, Czechoslovakia in 1923. She remembers Hungarian occupation; deportation to Ungvar, then Auschwitz in May 1944; separation from her family (she later learned her brother and father were alive in the male barracks); transfer to Frankfurt; forced labor; taunting of the prisoners because of their Yom Kippur prayers; starvation; a beating for smuggling food; a German guard allowing her to rest during work until she recovered her strength; transfer to Ravensbru?ck in December 1944; working at a Siemens factory; being saved from death by non-Jewish hospital staff; liberation by Soviet troops from a death march near Berlin; moving to the American zone; staying at a displaced persons camp; traveling to Prague; reunion with her brother; returning to Kon?us?; learning no other family had survived; marriage; emigration to Canada, then the United States; her son's birth; the death of her husband; remarriage; and her second son's birth. Mrs. B. discusses recurring nightmares; her children restoring her belief in God; sharing her experiences with them; and her brother's reluctance to share his experiences. She shows her father's photograph, which was saved by a non-Jewish neighbor.

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.

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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