Esther K. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Esther K., who was born in Svatusa, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1915. She describes her Orthodox family; attending Hungarian gymnasium in Kos?ice; marriage in 1937; her son's birth in 1938; her husband's service in the Czech, then Hungarian, militaries; Hungarian occupation; expropriation of their business; her husband's escape to Palestine; her second son's birth in 1940; moving to her parents' home; German occupation in March 1944; ghettoization with her family in Sa?toraljau?jhely; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her parents and children upon arrival on May 20 (she never saw them again); emotional numbness; devastation when separated from her sister; arranging to be with her sister in Birkenau; brutal slave labor; preventing her sister from committing suicide; their evacuation to Bergen-Belsen; transfer to Mu?hlhausen; slave labor in a factory; assistance from a German officer and a doctor; return to Bergen-Belsen; liberation by British troops; and her sister's death shortly thereafter. Mrs. K. recalls recovering in a hospital; returning to Svatusa in September 1945; reunion with her husband a year later; the births of her daughters; and emigrating to Israel in 1949, then to the United States in 1964. She discusses amazement that she survived such horrors and her continuing nightmares.

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