Anna and Joel K. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Anna K., who was born in Hajdu?na?na?s, Hungary in 1930 and her husband Joel K., who was born in Megyaszo? in 1923. Ms. K. recounts her family's move to Debrecen; attending a Jewish day school; cordial relations with non-Jews; her family's orthodoxy and strong Hungarian identity; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions, including wearing the yellow star; ghettoization; suicides and deaths from hunger; deportation with her family to Strasshof; slave labor for local farmers; local farmers bringing them food; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; her bat mitzvah; once seeing a cousin in another section and learning of his death shortly thereafter; her mother's encouragement when she lost her will to live; transfer with her family on April 10; and liberation from the train by United States troops.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- K., Joel, -- 1923-
- K., Anna, -- 1930-
Corporate Bodies
- Mizrachi.
- Strasshof (Concentration camp)
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Postwar effects.
- Mutual aid.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Nightmares.
- Escapes.
- Death marches.
- Concentration camps -- Psychological aspects.
- Concentration camp inmates -- Family relationships.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Jewish councils.
- Men.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Bat mitzvah.
- Concentration camp inmates -- Religious life.
- Fathers and sons.
- Family.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor -- Hungary.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Hungary -- Debrecen.
Places
- Debrecen (Hungary)
- Miskolc (Hungary)
- Budapest (Hungary)
- Fertőrákos (Hungary)
- Vienna (Austria)
- Győr (Hungary)
- Hungary.
- Hungary -- History -- Revolution, 1956 -- Personal narratives.
- Újpest (Budapest, Hungary)
- Postwar experiences.
- Hajdúnánás (Hungary)
- IV. Kerület (Budapest, Hungary)
- Kerepestarcsa (Hungary)
- Megyaszó (Hungary)
- Debrecen ghetto.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat