Gizella K. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2708) [videorecording] / interviewed by Joni-Sue Blinderman, December 2, 1993.

New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1993.

1 videorecording (1 hr., 59 min.) : col.

English

Videotape testimony of Gizella K., who was born in Budapest in 1907. She recalls her affluent childhood; pervasive antisemitism; her mother managing the family factory after her father's death; marriage; a daughter's birth; divorce and remarriage; her mother and daughter visiting the United States in 1939; difficulties getting them back after the war began; her second daughter's birth in 1943; learning her younger brother was killed in a forced labor battalion; her husband coming home almost nightly from his forced labor; placing her daughters in a convent; getting the younger child back; German invasion while visiting the older daughter with her mother and daughter; hiding in the convent (her husband joined them); moving to a former employee's house; liberation; her older daughter and husband encountering piles of bodies while searching for her ex-husband; visiting Prague with her family in 1948; and joining her mother in the United States a few weeks later.

June 01, 2002

Gizella K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2708). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Gizella K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2708). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

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