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Unrestricted - Fortunoff Video Archive
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30/04/96
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Helen Katz

Interview Summary
Videotape testimony of Veronica F., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1919. She describes her father's conversion from Judaism to a Methodist sect; ambivalence concerning her religious identity; anti-Jewish laws in 1938; attending university in Scotland; converting to Presbyterianism; returning to Hungary at her parents' behest; marriage to a Jew; her husband's forced service in a labor battalion in September 1940; his release after six months; her son's birth in May 1943; German occupation in 1944; her husband's deportation; help from Christian friends in hiding her son in a foster home; obtaining Swedish protective documents; wearing a yellow star; her parents' exemption from deportation due to her father's church activities; assistance from her father's Christian colleagues; hiding in her father's client's house from October 1944 until February 1945; and liberation by Soviet troops. Mrs. F. recalls reunion with her parents; retrieving her son; learning of her husband's death; fleeing to Austria in 1949; and emigrating to the United States via Venezuela. She discusses writing an account of her life; recent trips to Hungary; and she shows photographs.

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