Katherine A. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Katherine A., who was born in Luc?enec, Czechoslovakia in 1921. She describes growing up in an affluent family; cordial relations with non-Jews; her sister's marriage in a church to a Slovak; Hungarian occupation in 1938; living in Budapest; German occupation in 1944; her brother-in-law, who was a Slovak diplomat, arranging to smuggle her and her sister to Slovakia; living as non-Jews using false papers; joining partisans; hiding in a forest; staying briefly with her sister and brother-in-law in Ruz?omberok; hiding after her brother-in-law's arrest; liberation by Soviet troops; learning her parents had been killed; marriage to a survivor; the birth of her child; emigrating to Israel via Paris in 1949; and joining her younger sister in the United States. Mrs. A. discusses the importance of remembering the Holocaust; sharing her story with her children and grandchildren; and remembering those who helped her during the war.

2 videocassettes