Așteptându-l pe Mondy. Amintirile Lidei (Liba) Waldingher Burihovici Havas (n. 1921 – m. 2011)
Waiting for Mondy. Memories of Lida (Liba) Waldingher Burihovici Havas (1921-2011)
Author(s): Anca Tudorancea (Ciuciu)Subject(s): Oral history, Social history, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010)
Published by: Editura Hasefer
Keywords: Galatzi; Mondy (Raymond Waldingher); Ismail; Domanovka; Bogdanovka; Golta;
Summary/Abstract: In 2006, I recorded the memories of a woman who survived the camps of Domanovka, Bogdanovka and Golta, a very rare survivor of Transnistria. Lida Havas was a warm person with a great sense of humor, despite having experienced harsh events during her life (the death of her parents and first spouse during the Holocaust, the death of her second spouse and of her only child, during communism). Recalling them was painful, but it was also a form of liberation. Lida Havas refrained from sharing her dramatic experiences for decades, due to a severe post-traumatic shock. However, following a medical condition that threatened her life, in 2004, she decided to write a few pages about her experience, for people to know about her story. She gave them for safe keeping to Liviu Beris, president of the Association of Jewish Victims of the Holocaust in Romania. Most of this paper includes the following interview, that she gave in 2006 (uncompleted and unpublished, edited in Centropa format1), and some of her personal photographs.
Journal: Revista de Istorie a Evreilor din Romania
- Issue Year: 2020
- Issue No: 4+5(20+21)
- Page Range: 522-538
- Page Count: 17
- Language: Romanian
- Content File-PDF