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Adler, Esther

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Adler, Hélène
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Description de l'interview extraite du site US Fortunoff / Biographie à venir

 

Esther ADLER was born in Sevluš, Czechoslovakia (presently Vynohradiv, Ukraine) in 1928, one of seven children. She recounts attending school; Hungarian occupation; a brother fleeing to the Soviet Union and two sisters to Budapest; anti-Jewish restrictions, including expulsion from school in 1942; round-up with her remaining family in spring 1944; deportation to the Ungvár (Uzhhorod) ghetto, then six weeks later to Auschwitz/Birkenau; her uncle being shot in the head en route; separation with her sisters from her parents and youngest sister; seeing her father from afar once; encountering cousins who had been deported earlier; one sister's selection for work; no communication with other prisoner groups; transfer with her sister to Ravensbrück; their separation; transfer to Barth a few days later; slave labor in a factory; hospitalization; the prisoner physicians giving her extra food and keeping her more than a month; an evacuation march; abandonment by the guards the first night; staying in an abandoned home; moving to a prisoner of war camp; liberation by Soviet troops; repatriation to Prague; encountering a cousin who informed her that three of her sisters had survived; joining them in Budapest; learning no other immediate family survived; support from an uncle who lived in Brussels; joining him in 1948; marriage to a survivor; and the births of her children. Ms. A. discusses never losing hope, but constantly feeling terrorized in camps; believing her religious faith helped her to survive; relations among prisoners and prisoner groups; not sharing all her experiences with her children, to shield them; and feeling lucky to have had three surviving sisters.

(Copyright: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies Yale)

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Code interview : YA/FA/170
Date interview : 06/12/1999 - 09/12/2000
Lieu interview : Au domicile du témoin (2018 Antwerpen)
Durée interview : 6h
Langue interview : Français
Interviewers : Michel Rosenfeldt et Daniel Weyssow
Cameraman : Michael Dippold
Consultation : Autorisée
Indexation thématique : non
Séquençage interview : non

Mots-clés du témoignage :
Auschwitz / Birkenau | Juif / Juive | Marche / train de la mort | Ravensbrück | Ungvar (Ghetto)

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