Clara W. Holocaust testimony (HVT-277) [videorecording] / interviewed by Frances Ganz, November 30, 1982.

Lawrence, N. Y. : Second Generation of Long Island, 1982.

1 videorecording (1 hr., 3 min.) : col.

English

This testimony can only be used for scholarly and educational purposes.

Videotape testimony of Clara W., who was born in Csenger, Hungary in 1924, one of four children. She recalls a large, extended family and their orthodoxy; one aunt's emigration to the United States in 1938; deteriorating conditions for Jews after Kristallnacht; her brother's and brother-in-law's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; moving in with her married sister in another town; her brother's death notice in 1940; forced relocation in Mezőcsát; transfer to the Miskolc ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her sister and baby (they did not survive); transfer ten days later to Płaszów; slave labor; a severe beating; friends giving her extra food; transfer back to Auschwitz, then Augsburg; factory labor for seven months; French Christian prisoners providing war news which gave her hope; transfer to Mühldorf; train deportation six days later; a mass shooting of more than half the prisoners; an Allied bombing (she hid under the train); liberation from the train by United States troops in Feldafing; living in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp; learning her immediate family had all perished; marriage; moving to Hamburg; and emigration to join her aunt in the United States. Ms. W. tells of illness after the war; her continuing belief in God; and frequently discussing her experiences with others, including her children.

June 01, 2002

Clara W. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-277). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Clara W. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-277). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

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