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Author/Creator:M., Edith, 1926-
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Title:Edith M. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4298) [videorecording] / interviewed by Dana L. Kline, June 29, 2004.
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Published/Created:New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 2004.
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Physical Description:1 videorecording (2 hr., 18 min.) : col.
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Yale Holdings
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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.4298)
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:3 copies: DVCam master; Betacam SP dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
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Summary:Videotape testimony of Edith M., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia in 1926. She recounts moving to Cluj when she was eight; visiting grandparents in Košice and Chernivt︠s︡i; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; Hungarian occupation in 1940; visiting relatives in Budapest in 1943; a ban on Jewish travel preventing her return home; German invasion in March 1944; forced relocation to a yellow star house; briefly hiding with a non-Jewish woman; a round-up by Hungarians on October 19; a forced march to Harkakópháza; slave labor digging tank trenches; purchasing food from local peasants; relocation to Budapest; escaping with others; returning to her family; a round-up with her aunt to a brick factory; a death march to Lichtenwörth; two women giving birth (the children died); sharing potato peels with male prisoners; assisting her aunt when she had typhus; liberation by Soviet troops in late April; hospitalization; her aunt's death; repatriation to Budapest; reunion with two aunts; returning to Cluj; placement in an orphanage; marriage in 1949; the births of two children; emigration to Israel via Bucharest and Vienna in 1958, and to the United States in 1961. Ms. M. discusses nightmares resulting from her experiences; shielding her children from her story, but later sharing it with them; and recently visiting Budapest with her daughter and her family. She shows photographs.
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Cite as:Edith M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4298). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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Subjects:M., Edith, 1926-
World Hashomer Hatzair.
Holocaust survivors.
Video tapes.
Women.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
Forced labor.
Escapes.
Death marches.
World War, 1939-1945--Children.
Jewish children in the Holocaust.
Concentration camp inmates--Family relationships.
Orphanages.
Nightmares.
Czechoslovakia.
Bratislava (Slovakia)
Košice (Slovakia)
Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
Chernivt︠s︡i (Ukraine)
Budapest (Hungary)
Bucharest (Romania)
Vienna (Austria)
Israel.
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Subjects (Local Yale):Child survivors.
Hungarian occupation.
Hiding.
Aid by non-Jews.
Mutual aid.
Childbirth in concentration camps.
Postwar experiences.
Postwar effects.
Survivor-child relations.
Lichtenwörth (Austria : Concentration camp)
Harkakópháza (Hungary)
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Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
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Also listed under:Kline, Dana L., interviewer.
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