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Betty L. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1396) interviewed by Arthur Peskoe and Marsha Grossman,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1396

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Betty L., who was born in Kozovo, Galicia (presently Ukrainian S.S.R.) in 1910. She describes her orthodox family life; German occupation; collaboration with the Nazis by some local Ukrainians; ghettoization; her mother's death; deportation of her two young children and mother-in-law (she never saw them again); hiding with her husband and other relatives; aid received from Poles and Ukrainians; working for Germans using false papers; and the murders of her father and sister. Mrs. L. tells of liberation by Soviet troops in April 1945; her son's birth in the Landsberg displaced persons camp; emigration to the United States in 1949; her daughter's birth in 1953; her children's careers; discussing her experiences with her children and neighbors; and her continuing financial support of the children of Polish friends who had helped her hide.
Author/Creator: L., Betty, 1910-
Published: Ventnor, N.J. : Federation of Jewish Agencies of Atlantic County/Stockton State College, Holocaust Oral History Project, 1989
Interview Date: June 22, 1989.
Locale: Galicia (Poland and Ukraine)
Kozova (Ukraine)
Cite As: Betty L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1396). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Peskoe, Arthur, interviewer.
Grossman, Marsha, interviewer.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (1 hr., 38 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Aid by non-Jews.
False papers.
Hiding.
Postwar experiences.
Mutual aid.
Survivor-child relations.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Children--Death. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Families. Husband and wife. Jewish ghettos. Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) Kozova (Ukraine) Oral histories (document genres) Refugee camps. L., Betty,--1910- Landsberg am Lech (Displaced persons camp)

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
Special Collection: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

Link to Yale University Library Catalog:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1004538
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:27:00
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