Malvina H. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Malvina H., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1913 and raised in Subotica. She recounts membership in Hashomer Hatzair; moving to Zagreb with them; leaving the Zionist group to join Marxist groups; moving to Belgrade; marriage to a Croatian non-Jew; German invasion in 1941; not registering as a Jew (her documents listed her as a Catholic Croat); her husband's death escaping from a camp; living with her mother-in-law; helping her Jewish friend Blanka acquire false papers as a non-Jew; registering Blanka's daughter as her own; living together; hosting communist meetings; Blanka being recognized as a Jew; moving to Stepojevac; returning to Belgrade with Blanka's daughter; bribing a police officer; returning to Stepojevac; hiding Blanka when she was recognized; their non-Jewish landlady hiding them from Chetniks; a brief trip to Belgrade; a Chetnik commander protecting them in Stepojevac; and joining the partisans with Blanka. Mrs. H. notes her lifelong friendship with Blanka. She shows photographs.
Extent and Medium
3 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
People
- H., Malvina, -- 1913-
Corporate Bodies
- World Hashomer Hatzair.
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Friendship.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Yugoslavia.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- Hiding.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Partisans.
- False papers.
- Husband -- Death.
- Mutual aid.
- Interfaith marriage.
- Chetnik movement.
- Postwar experiences.
Places
- Zagreb (Croatia)
- Stepojevac (Serbia)
- Budapest (Hungary)
- Subotica (Subotica, Serbia)
- Hungary.
- Belgrade (Serbia)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat