Edit K. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Edit K., who was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1929, an only child. She recounts her grandfather's political career; warm relations with her grandmother; attending a German school; German occupation; learning she was Jewish due to anti-Jewish restrictions; her parents sending her to live with friends in a village for a year; returning home; attending a Jewish school; participating in athletics led by Fredy Hirsch; her parents' futile efforts to emigrate; learning her father's brother had reached Palestine; writing a diary that she still has; her grandparents' deportation to Theresienstadt, then her's and her parents a few months later; learning her grandfather had died; living in a children's barrack; visiting her parents, grandmother, and other relatives; receiving packages from her uncle's non-Jewish wife; many deaths from disease; attending classes, including those of artist Friedl Dicker; participating in musical performances; observances of Jewish holidays, a first for her; transfer to Auschwitz in late 1943; separation from her father; horror when her mother suggested they commit suicide; assignment with her parents to the family camp; her father's death in February 1944; Fredy Hirsch organizing the children's barrack; assisting with the younger children; transfer with her mother to Friehafen (Hamburg); slave labor in a munitions factory; and clearing rubble from Allied bombings.
Extent and Medium
11 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
- Hirsch, Fredy, -- 1916-1944.
- Dicker, Friedl, -- 1898-1944.
- K., Edit, -- 1929-
Corporate Bodies
- Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
- Neugraben (Concentration camp)
- Hamburg- iefstak (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Concentration camps -- Psychological aspects.
- Concentration camps -- Sociological aspects.
- Fathers and daughters.
- Grandparent and child.
- Identification (Religion)
- Mothers and daughters.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Friendship.
- Prisoners of war -- Yugoslavia.
- Prisoners of war -- France.
- Prisoners of war -- Germany.
- Prisoners of war -- Italy.
- Forced labor.
- Concentration camp inmates -- Religious life.
- Concentration camp inmates -- Family relationships.
- Postwar effects.
- Postwar experiences.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Mutual aid.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Child survivors.
- Cannibalism.
Places
- Czechoslovakia.
- Prague (Czech Republic)
- Freihafen (Germany : Concentration camp)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat