- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Nina F., who was born in Zolochev, Poland (presently Zolochiv, Ukraine), in approximately 1926, the only child in a middle class family. She recalls attending public and Hebrew schools; two month summer vacations with her mother; Soviet occupation in 1939; confiscation of the family business; German invasion in June 1941; confiscation of their valuables; forced labor; ghettoization; her parents obtaining Christian false papers for her; living with a seamstress in Lʹviv; near exposure as a Jew; returning home wanting to be with her family; hiding in a bunker during round-ups; leaving the bunker with her father; being caught and machine gunned in front of a mass grave; falling, but not being injured; climbing out of the grave after dark; finding her mother; working in a forced labor camp; transfer to Lackie; working with her mother as a housekeeper for an SS; their escape; hiding in fields; falling asleep; awaking to find her mother gone (she was killed); going to the family which previously hid her, then to a farmer she knew in Ushnya; hiding in his silo for four months, then a hole under the barn for almost a year; liberation by Soviet troops; concealing her rescuer's identity to shield him from retaliation; learning she was the sole survivor of a family of sixty; traveling to Krakow; marriage; leaving due to antisemitism; living in Munich; assistance from UNRRA and the Joint; emigration to the United States, establishing a business; and raising a family. Ms. F. discuss her nightmares; continuing to help her rescuers; and her love for the United States. She shows photographs.
- Author/Creator
- F., Nina, 1926?-
- Published
- Cleveland, Ohio : National Council of Jewish Women, Holocaust Archive Project, 1984
- Interview Date
- August 23, 1984.
- Locale
- Ukraine
Zolochiv
Zolochiv (Lʹvivsʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine)
Poland
Lʹviv (Ukraine)
Ushnya (Ukraine)
Kraków (Poland)
Munich (Germany)
- Cite As
- Nina F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-336). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Danford, Sue, interviewer.
