Lenke L. Holocaust testimony (HVT-898) [videorecording] / interviewed by Peggy Morton, May 17, 1987.

New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1987.

1 videorecording (56 min.) : col.

Hungarian

This testimony is in Hungarian.

Videotape testimony of Lenke L., who was born in Kemenesmagasi, Hungary in 1912. She recalls attending a Calvinist school; her brother attending university in Vienna due to Hungarian Jewish quotas; his emigration to the United States; anti-Jewish measures under the Arrow Cross; forced relocation with her family to Jánosháza, then Sárvár; her mother's death; deportation to Auschwitz; pervasive hunger; transfer to Allendorf; slave labor in a munitions factory; she and her cousins being liberated by United States troops; returning home; visiting her mother's grave; finding her home destroyed; joining cousins in another city; marriage; confiscation of her husband's business under the communists; antisemitic harassment; escaping during the 1956 revolution; and emigration to the United States. Mrs. L. discusses persistent nightmares; her increasing sense of loss as she grows older; sharing her memories, which are never-healing wounds, with fellow survivors; and antipathy toward Hungary, which she defines as her birthplace, not her homeland.

June 01, 2002

Lenke L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-898). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Lenke L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-898). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

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