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Deutsch, Martha

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

 

Martha Deutsch was born in Sátoraljaújhely, Hungary in 1923, the second of four daughters. She recalls her family's poverty; leaving school in 1937; German invasion in March 1944; ghettoization; the disappearance of one sister; deportation with her family in May to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her parents (she never saw them again); she and her sisters remaining together; transfer to Bergen-Belsen in the fall; an SS woman assisting her care for her sick sister; transfer to Braunschweig in December; slave labor clearing bombing rubble; starvation, illness, and lice infestation; becoming inured to pervasive deaths and corpses; Wehrmacht guards allowing them to find extra food; transfer in December to Beendorf; slave labor in an underground factory; separation from one sister during train evacuation (she did not survive); transfer to Langenhorn, then two weeks later to Altona; evacuation by the Swedish Red Cross to Denmark, then Sweden (her sister was too ill to come); hospitalization for two years; attempts to verify her sister was alive; hearing from her fourteen months later; joining an aunt in Belgium in 1947; marriage; and the births of three children. Ms. D. discusses the importance of being with her sisters to her survival; struggling with depression due to her experiences; not sharing them with anyone, including her husband and children; visiting her sister in Romania and her hometown in 1960; and knowing there is much she does not remember.

(Copyright : Fortunoff Video Archives for Holocaust Testimonies – Yale)

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Code interview : YA/FA/116
Date interview : 18/11/1996 et 09/12/1996
Lieu interview : Centre Audiovisuel de l’Université Libre de Bruxelles
Durée interview : 7h14
Langue interview : Français
Interviewers : Yannis Thanessekos et Michel Rosenfeldt
Cameraman : Adrien Antoniol
Consultation : Autorisée
Indexation thématique : non
Séquençage interview : non

Mots-clés du témoignage :
Altona / Hamburg (Zivilarbeiterlager) | Auschwitz / Birkenau | Beendorf / Neuengamme | Bergen-Belsen | Braunschweig / Neuengamme | Juif / Juive | Langenhorn / Neuengamme | Marche / train de la mort | Sátoraljaújhely/Neustadt am Zeltberg / Hongrie (ghetto)

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