Judith P. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Judith P., who was born in Nagyrozva?gy, Hungary in 1925, the oldest of seven children. She recalls her affluent home; antisemitic laws; her father's conscription for forced labor; visiting him in a nearby camp; his release; refusing a Hungarian friend's offer of her papers in order to stay with her family; their deportation to the Sa?toraljau?jhely ghetto in April 1944, then to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from all her family except two sisters; sorting possessions of those gassed; finding her relatives' clothing; throwing jewelry and cash in latrines; difficult relations with Polish and Slovak Jews; watching those entering the gas chamber and bodies being burned in open pits; fasting on Yom Kippur; their transfer in September 1944 to Bergen-Belsen and in December to Braunschweig; slave labor; helping each other; one sister receiving food from a German soldier; torture of two Jehovah's Witnesses; train transport to Denmark in April 1945; liberation by the Red Cross; living in O?sterkorsberga, then Uppsala; reunion with her father in Budapest in 1948; emigration with one sister to the United States; and marriage. Mrs. P. discusses the inexplicability and randomness of surviving; nightmares; the importance of being with her sisters; and reluctance to burden her children with her experiences.
Extent and Medium
4 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
- P., Judith, -- 1925-
Corporate Bodies
- Braunschweig (Concentration camp)
- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Concentration camp inmates -- Family relationships.
- Sisters.
- Concentration camp inmates -- Religious life.
- Concentration camps -- Sociological aspects.
- Sabotage.
- Concentration camps -- Psychological aspects.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Hungary -- Sátoralfaújhely.
- Mutual aid.
- Postwar experiences.
- Postwar effects.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Jehovah's Witnesses.
- Forced labor.
- Nightmares.
- Aid by non-Jews.
Places
- Sátoraljaújhely ghetto.
- Budapest (Hungary)
- Uppsala (Sweden)
- Österkorsberga (Sweden)
- Denmark.
- Hungary.
- Nagyrozvágy (Hungary)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat