Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Kay F., who was born in Sieradz, Poland in 1919. She recalls her father's career as a physician; attending university in Kraków; completing her last year at home due to increasing antisemitism; German invasion; fleeing with her family to relatives in Łódź; returning to Sieradz; her father's brief imprisonment; traveling with her parents to Sandomierz; deportation with her family and her fiancé to Częstochowa concentration camp; slave labor in the HASAG factory; marriage; posing as her father's wife to assist him in providing medical care; transfer to Bergen-Belsen in January 1945; selection for a transport; escaping during an Allied bombing; hiding in a forest, then a nearby village; liberation by United States troops; recovering in Landsberg displaced persons camp; learning her parents and brother were killed; reunion with her husband in Stuttgart; assistance from the Red Cross; working to assist orphans; and emigrating to join relatives in the United States.
- Published
- Wilmington, Del. : Halina Wind Preston Holocaust Education Center, 1989
- Interview Date
- April 2, 1989.
- Locale
- Poland
Sieradz (Poland)
Kraków (Poland)
Łódź (Poland)
Sandomierz (Poland)
Stuttgart (Germany) - Cite As
- Kay F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1155). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 4 copies: 3/4 in. dub; Betacam SP restoration master; Betacam SP restoration submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 13 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Antisemitism Prewar.
Hiding.
Marriage in concentration camps.
Postwar experiences. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Fathers and daughters. Mothers and daughters. Forced labor. Escapes. Concentration camp inmates--Family relationships. Husband and wife. Refugee camps. Poland. Sieradz (Poland) Kraków (Poland) Łódź (Poland) Sandomierz (Poland) Stuttgart (Germany) Oral histories (document genres) F., Kay,--1919- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) Hugo Schneider Aktiengesellschaft. Częstochowa (Concentration camp) Landsberg am Lech (Displaced persons camp) International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
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/4283379
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-29 11:58:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4283379
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