Judith N. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Judith N., who was born in Gherla (Szamosu?jva?r), Romania in 1930 to a rabbincal family of eight children. She recalls moving to Kolozsva?r (Cluj); attending Tarbut school; her family's return to Gherla after German occupation; her brother's conscription for forced labor in 1944; ghettoization in April; transfer to the Cluj ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz in May; selection with two of her sisters (she never saw her parents or other siblings again); their belief that they would survive; appels and selections; transfer to a labor camp; her sisters dying during a death march; receiving food from Czech civilians; liberation by United States troops; recuperation in a military hospital; traveling to Budapest; reunion with her brother in Cluj; living in a displaced persons camp near Stuttgart; help from HIAS; emigration to the United States; living with her uncle and aunt; and marriage to a survivor. Mrs. N. discusses details of camp life; the importance of being with her sisters; her family's reluctance to hear her experiences; not telling her children; writing her Masters' thesis on the children of survivors; visiting her hometowns with her children; and her biographical book.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- N., Judith, -- 1930-
Corporate Bodies
- HIAS (Agency)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Survivor-child relations.
- Zionist organizations.
- Hungarian occupation.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Postwar experiences.
- Jews -- Romania -- Cluj-Napoca.
- Jews -- Romania -- Gherla.
- Refugee camps.
- Child survivors.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Sisters.
- Forced labor.
- Death marches.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Szamosújvár ghetto.
- Szamosújvár (Hungary)
- Cluj ghetto.
- Kolozsvár (Romania)
- Budapest (Hungary)
- Stuttgart (Germany)
- Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
- Gherla (Romania)
- Romania.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat