Edita S. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Edita S., who was born in Červený Kostelec, Czechoslovakia in 1920. She describes her assimilated and close, extended family; visits to her grandparents in Chcebuz; moving to Prague; marriage in 1940; following her husband to Theresienstadt in December 1941; a two-month transfer to Křivoklát, where conditions were better under Czech guards; return to Theresienstadt; obtaining cigarettes for her father; comforting her mother; her father's death in June 1944; her husband's deportation to Auschwitz that fall; volunteering to join him (she never saw her mother again); selections; transfer to Birnbäumel; slave labor, starvation, and frigid cold; sharing food with her friends; a death march; escaping with her friends; liberation by Soviet troops; traveling to Oleśnica; recuperating in an army hospital in Częstochowa; and traveling to Katowice, Ostrava, then Prague. Mrs. S. discusses the effect of camp conditions on her spirits; discomfort with people who were not in camps; learning her husband had perished; marriage to a survivor; their nightmares; continuing fears based on her camp experiences; and a trip to Auschwitz in 1994. She shows photographs.
Extent and Medium
3 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.
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- S., Edita, -- 1920-
Corporate Bodies
- Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Birnbäumel (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Concentration camp inmates -- Family relationships.
- Nightmares.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Husband and wife.
- Fathers and daugthers.
- Escapes.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Mutual aid.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Psychological aspects.
- Death marches.
- Husband -- Death.
- Postwar effects.
- Postwar experiences.
Places
- Prague (Czech Republic)
- Křivoklát (Czech Republic)
- Czech Republic.
- Červený Kostelec (Czech Republic)
- Częstochowa (Poland)
- Katowice (Poland)
- Chcebuz (Czech Republic)
- Oleśnica (Wrocław, Poland)
- Ostrava (Czech Republic)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat