Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Reva S., who was born in Šiauliai, Lithuania in 1927. She recalls ghettoization in 1941; mining peat and digging ditches as a forced laborer; extreme hunger; moving to the Trakai ghetto; deportation of her grandparents and youngest sister; her father's escape from the ghetto (she never saw him again); and deportation to Stutthof with her mother and sister. Mrs. S. describes futile efforts to help her sister avoid selection; transfer with her mother to Elbing, then five months later to Neumarkt; assistance from Italian prisoners of war; transfer to jail; a death march in January 1945; mass shootings of the prisoners and being left for dead; receiving help from Soviet troops; and reunion with her mother. She recounts their attempted return home; learning that her father and sister had been killed but her brother had survived; remaining in Kraków; traveling to Feldafing to join her brother in November 1945; marriage in 1946; and emigration to the United States in 1949. She shows a comb her father had made for her in the ghetto.
- Published
- Baltimore, Md. : Baltimore Jewish Council, 1990
- Interview Date
- January 21, 1990.
- Locale
- Lithuania
Trakai
Šiauliai
Kraków (Poland)
Šiauliai (Lithuania) - Cite As
- Reva S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1375). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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., 50 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Mutual aid.
Postwar experiences.
Child survivors.
Mass killings. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jews--Lithuania--Trakai. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Lithuania--Šiauliai. Mothers and daughters. Forced labor. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Sisters. Kraków (Poland) Lithuania. Šiauliai (Lithuania) Oral histories (document genres) Concentration camp inmates--Family relationships. Refugee camps. Death marches. S., Reva,--1927- Stutthof (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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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/1084875
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-29 11:58:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt1084875
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