Judit Gottdiener
Judit Gottdiener (F / Hungary, 1936), Holocaust survivor
- KEYWORDS : <Kastner Train> <Bergen-Belsen> <Switzerland>
Biography
Source
Her name is not included in extant lists of passengers of the Kastner Train.
USHMM Oral Interview
Judit Gottdiener, born in 1936 in Budapest, Hungary, describes her early childhood in Budapest; her recollections of enjoyable family life and religious experience; the Royal Air Force bombing Budapest; her father's tobacco accessories store; her memories of wearing a yellow star; her family's attempt to escape to Palestine; her transport to Bergen-Belsen; participating in the daily counting; her memories of Yom Kippur in Bergen-Belsen; her transport to a Red Cross Camp in Switzerland; her memories of her grandparents' deaths in the Budapest ghetto; her marriage to Ernest in 1948; her move back to Vienna, Austria, from the United States in 1958; and her permanent move to the United States in 1961.