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Author/Creator:S., Margita, 1915-
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Title:Margita S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3888) [videorecording], February 26, 1995.
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Published/Created:Bratislava, Slovakia : Milan Šimečka Foundation, 1995.
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Physical Description:1 videorecording (2 hr., 52 min.) : col.
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Location:LSF-Physical copy for request by library staff only
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Call Number: MS 1322
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Status:Not Checked Out
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Digital testimony (mssa.hvt.3888)
For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
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Location:LSF-Physical copy for request by library staff only
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Notes:This testimony is in Slovak.
3 copies: 1/2 in. VHS master; Betacam SP submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
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Summary:Videotape testimony of Margita S., who was born in Liptovský Mikuláš, Czechoslovokia (presently Slovakia) in 1915, one of four children. She recalls her family's assimilation and strong Czech identity; cordial relations with non-Jews; her father's death when she was thirteen; socialist activities; attending medical school in Bratislava; anti-Jewish restrictions beginning in 1938 resulting in her expulsion; working in Olomouc for her uncle (he was a surgeon) as an X-ray technician; readmission to medical school, then expulsion again; attending nursing school in 1941; deportation to Auschwitz in March 1942; assignment to the hospital; hoping at first she was there in error and would return home, but then realizing it was a futile hope; assisting as many prisoners as she could; transfer to Birkenau; assignment to Dr. Clauberg, who was performing specious medical experiments on the prisoners; a nun assisting her when she became ill; reassignment to Dr. Rohde, who helped others (she saved many lives due to him); working for Dr. Mengele and Dr. König (he also helped her save prisoners); an organized effort to abort pregnant woman to keep them alive; a death march and train transport to Ravensbrück, then Neustadt-Glewe; liberation by Soviet troops in May 1945; traveling to Prague, then home; learning her entire family had survived; completing medical school; working in Bratislava; and repercussions in 1968 for her pro-democracy support. Dr. S. notes she chooses not to discuss many horrors she experienced; acts of resistance raising morale; and persistent pain due to not being able to help more prisoners.
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Cite as:Margita S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3888). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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Subjects:S., Margita, 1915-
Clauberg, Carl, 1898-1957.
Rohde, Werner.
Mengele, Josef, 1911-1979.
Klein, Fritz, 1888-1945.
König, Hans-Wilhelm.
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Birkenau (Concentration camp)
Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
Neustadt-Glewe (Concentration camp)
Holocaust survivors.
Video tapes.
Women.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
Concentration camps--Psychological aspects.
Human experimentation in medicine.
Death marches.
Czechoslovakia.
Liptovský Mikuláš (Slovakia)
Bratislava (Slovakia)
Olomouc (Czech Republic)
Prague (Czech Republic)
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Subjects (Local Yale):Antisemitism--Prewar.
Hospitals in concentration camps.
Mutual aid.
Postwar effects.
Aid by non-Jews.
Postwar experiences.
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Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
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Occupation:Physicians.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4469449