Margit F. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1441) [videorecording] / interviewed by Bernard Weinstein and Daniel Gover, January 30, 1990.

Union, N.J. : Kean College Oral Testimonies Project, 1990.

1 videorecording (1 hr., 21 min.) : col.

English

Associated material: Feldman, Margit. Interview 18650. Visual History Archive, USC Shoah Foundation. Access at https://vha.usc.edu.

Videotape testimony of Margit F., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1929. She recounts living in Tolcsva; her family's orthodoxy; antisemitic harassment; attending Jewish schools locally and in Budapest; her father's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1943; his return; ghettoization in Sátoraljaújhely in 1944; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her parents; her father being beaten when he left the line to bless her; remaining with an aunt and her aunt's sister-in-law; their transfer to Kraków; slave labor in a quarry; assistance from her aunt; the shooting of every tenth prisoner; transfer back to Auschwitz, then to Grünberg; slave labor in a munitions factory; a death march to Bergen-Belsen; becoming ill; her relatives' deaths; liberation by British troops; assistance from the Red Cross; being injured in an accident; hospitalization; transfer to Sweden; learning her mother and father had been killed; and emigration to the United States in August 1947 to join relatives. Ms. F. discusses her religious faith and its importance to her survival; visiting Hungary with her family in 1972; speaking in schools; and nightmares resulting from her experiences.

June 01, 2002

Margit F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1441). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Margit F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1441). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

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