Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Ann F., who was born in 1925, in Zduńska Wola, Poland. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; attending a private Jewish school; German invasion; fleeing east; returning home; ghettoization; her father's Polish friends bringing them food; a public hanging; liquidation of the ghetto in 1942; separation from her family (she never saw them again); a suicide in the cattle train transfer to the Łódź ghetto; living with a cousin; a friend's family sharing food with her; transfer to Częstochowa in 1943; slave labor in a munitions factory; meeting her future husband; an older friend caring for her; transfer to Ravensbrück, Burgau, and Türkheim; a death march to Allach; liberation by United States troops in spring 1945; living in Feldafing displaced persons camp, with a cousin in Munich, and in Landsberg displaced persons camp; reunion with her boyfriend; marriage in 1946; her daughter's birth in 1947; and emigration to the United States in 1951. Ms. F. discusses difficulties sleeping and nervousness resulting from her experiences, and sharing her story with her daughter.
- Published
- Cleveland, Ohio : National Council of Jewish Women, Holocaust Archive Project, 1984
- Interview Date
- August 30, 1984.
- Locale
- Poland
Zduńska Wola
Łódź
Zduńska Wola (Poland)
Munich (Germany) - Cite As
- Ann F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-455). 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., 20 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Child survivors.
Aid by non-Jews.
Mutual aid.
Postwar effects.
Postwar experiences.
Survivor-child relations. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Jewish children in the Holocaust. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Zduńska Wola. Jews--Poland--Łódź. Forced labor. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Suicide. Death marches. Refugee camps. Poland. Zduńska Wola (Poland) Munich (Germany) Oral histories (document genres) F., Ann,--1925- Częstochowa (Concentration camp) Ravensbrück (Concentration camp) Türkheim (Concentration camp) Allach (Concentration camp) Burgau (Concentration camp) Landsberg am Lech (Displaced persons camp) Feldafing (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/4293758
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:28:00
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