Erika M. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Erika M., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1922. She recalls her family's orthodoxy; her brother attending medical school; the Anschluss; her brother's expulsion from school; former friends turning on them; her parents leaving for Czechoslovakia; remaining with her brother; smuggling themselves to join their parents in Trenc?iansky; marriage in 1939; a futile attempt to emigrate with her husband from Bratislava to Palestine in June 1940; her husband's complying with a deportation notice (she never saw him again); rejoining her family; entering Nova?ky; meeting her future husband; liberation during the Slovak uprising; living with her parents and brother on a farm; joining her fiance? in Hartmanice; retreating into the mountains in October; assistance from local Slovaks; hiding in bunkers; liberation by Soviet partisans in March 1945; crossing the mountains to Soviet-liberated areas; her fianc ?working in the hospital in Topol?c?any; her daughter's birth and death two days later; reunion with her brother (her parents had been deported and perished); living in Litome?r?ice; illegally leaving for Vienna in 1949; emigration to the United States; and her daughter's birth in 1954. Ms. M. notes her husband's recent death.
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
People
- M., Erika, -- 1922-
Corporate Bodies
- Nováky (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Partisans.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Hiding.
- Bunkers.
- Postwar experiences.
- Husband and wife.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Slovakia.
- Family.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Austria -- History -- Anschluss, 1938.
- Austria.
- Bratislava (Slovakia)
- Trenčiansky kraj (Slovakia)
- Hartmanice (Czechoslovakia)
- Slovakia -- History -- Uprising, 1944.
- Litoměřice (Czech Republic)
- Topol̕čany (Slovakia)
- Vienna (Austria)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat