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• Author/Creator:K., Jolan, 1921-
  
• Title:Jolan K. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2049) [videorecording] / interviewed by Joni-Sue Blinderman, May 27, 1992.
  
• Published/Created:New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1992.
  
• Physical Description:1 videorecording (57 min.) : col.
  

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  • Location:LSF-Physical copy for request by library staff only
    Staff Request for Use in Manuscripts and Archives
    
    
  • Call Number: MS 1322
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  •   Digital testimony (mssa.hvt.2049)
    For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
    

   
• Notes:2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
  
• Summary:Videotape testimony of Jolan K., who was born in Czechoslovakia in 1921. She recalls Hungarian occupation; her father's and three brothers' conscription into a forced labor battalion; traveling from Solotvyno to Munkács (Mukacheve) to arrange her father's release; traveling to Košice and Uz︠h︡horod to arrange one brother's release; learning her other two brothers had been killed; ghettoization; help from the town's mayor obtaining food for the ghetto; deportation with her parents and two brothers to Auschwitz in 1944; separation from her family (she never saw her mother again); transfer to another camp; slave labor; a death march in January 1945 to several camps, including Theresienstadt and Buchenwald; help from their Wehrmacht guards; German civilians refusing them food when they learned they were Jewish; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; liberation in April 1945; hospitalization; traveling to Prague; assistance from the Joint; traveling to Budapest; reunion with two brothers; moving to Sighet; traveling with her future husband to Timișoara and Prague; moving to Bamberg displaced persons camp with Beriḥah's help; and attending an ORT school. Mrs. K. discusses the reluctance of others to hear about her experience; her resulting reticence; and the pervasive presence of her memories.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Jolan K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2049). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  
• Subjects:K., Jolan, 1921-
  Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
  Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
  Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
  Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
  American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
  World ORT Union.
  Beriḥah (Organization)
  Holocaust survivors.
  Video tapes.
  Women.
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
  Jewish ghettos.
  Forced labor.
  Death marches.
  Refugee camps.
  Czechoslovakia.
  Mukacheve (Ukraine)
  Solotvyno (Ukraine)
  Košice (Slovakia)
  Uz︠h︡horod (Ukraine)
  Prague (Czech Republic)
  Budapest (Hungary)
  Timiṣoara (Romania)
  Sighet (Romania)
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Hungarian occupation.
  Aid by non-Jews.
  Postwar experiences.
  Munkács (Hungary)
  
• Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
  
• Also listed under:Blinderman, Joni-Sue, interviewer.