Judith Szentivanyi and Edward Saint-Ivan Oral History Interview

Interviewee

Judith Szentivanyi
Edward Saint-Ivan

Files

Interviewer

Carolyn Ellis

Publication Date

12-6-2010

Date

2010-03-11

Abstract

Oral history interview with Holocaust survivor Judith Szentivanyi. Szentivanyi was born in Miskolc, Hungary, in 1928. Conditions for Jews in her city remained stable from 1939 until March 1944, when the Germans invaded. That summer, Szentivanyi and her mother and sister were taken to a local brick factory, where they were detained for several days before being taken on a train to Auschwitz. At that point her mother and sister were taken away to the gas chambers, while Szentivanyi was taken to the Plaszow work camp. In January 1945 Plaszow was closed and the prisoners returned to Auschwitz. This time Szentivanyi was there for several months before being taken to Parschnitz, a sub-camp of Gross-Rosen, where she worked in the AEG factory. After being liberated by the Russians, Szentivanyi returned to Hungary, where she was reunited with her father and her aunt. She and her husband, Andor Szentivanyi, were married in 1948. They left Hungary in 1956 and came to the United States, where both worked in the medical field. In 1969 they came to Tampa, where her husband had been offered a position with the USF College of Medicine; he eventually became the college's dean. Szentivanyi retired in 1996 and frequently speaks about her experiences in the Holocaust. Her son, Edward Saint-Ivan, also participates in this interview.

Keywords

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Hungary--Personal narratives, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives, Holocaust survivors--Florida, Holocaust survivors--Interviews, Genocide, Crimes against humanity

Extent

01:28:47; 71 page transcript

Subject: geographic

Miskolc (Hungary); Ukraine; Auschwitz (Poland); Płaszów (Poland); Trautenau (Trutnov)

Language

English

Digital Date

2022

Media Type

Oral histories

Format

Digital Only

Identifier

F60-00023

Recommended Citation

Szentivanyi, Judith and Saint-Ivan, Edward, "Judith Szentivanyi and Edward Saint-Ivan Oral History Interview" (2010). Holocaust Survivors Oral History Project. 22.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/holocaust_OH/22