Bella M. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Bella M., who was born in Hungary in 1904 and grew up in Csecse. She recalls studying in Koma?rom, Budapest, and Vienna; obtaining a permit to retain her lingerie workshop despite the law against it; her husband's compulsory service in a labor battalion; an unsuccessful attempt to hide after Szaloshi came to power in 1944; incarceration in a brick factory; escaping with sick women to Gyo?r; organizing treatment and food for the Jewish women with assistance from a doctor and men from a Jewish labor battalion; contacting their friends and relatives through a peasant; escaping to Budapest with assistance from the doctor and nuns; learning her husband was deported to Germany; using false papers to travel with her Catholic friend to Koma?rom; joining her sister in Semjen with assistance from her non-Jewish brother-in-law; her husband's arrival a week later (he escaped from Szombathely with assistance from a former employee and a friend); and liberation by Soviet troops. Mrs. M. recounts rebuilding their life in Budapest; her daughter's birth in 1945; emigration with her family to Canada in 1949; and her husband's continuing sense of being a stranger.

3 videocassettes (betacam sp)