Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Lore P., who was born in Gelsenkirchen, Germany in 1921. She recounts attending a Jewish school; babysitting for a Jewish family in Dortmund; her brother's emigration to Palestine in 1936; Kristallnacht; her father's arrest and release one week later; attending school in Berlin in 1940; working in a factory; returning home in 1941; working in Essen; deportation with her parents to the Rīga ghetto in January 1942; encountering an uncle and cousins; construction work with her mother at the airport; separation from her parents (she never saw them again); transfer to Spilwe; slave labor for AEG; trying to help her uncle (he died); brief hospitalization; observing a child's birth (the baby was discarded in the trash); ship transfer to Stutthof; transfer to Toruń; sabotaging products in the generator factory; a death march to Bydgoszcz; liberation by Soviet troops; assistance from Jewish soldiers; traveling to Łódź; marriage; returning to her hometown; reunion with two aunts; and emigration with her husband and two children to Israel in 1948, then to the United States in 1955. Ms. P. notes she has much more to tell but that it would be "without end."
- Published
- Dallas, Tex. : Memorial Center for Holocaust Studies, 1985
- Interview Date
- October 27, 1985.
- Locale
- Latvia
Rīga
Germany
Gelsenkirchen (Germany)
Dortmund (Germany)
Berlin (Germany)
Essen (Germany)
Bydgoszcz (Poland)
Łódź (Poland)
Israel - Cite As
- Lore P. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-728). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
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Related material: Lore P. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1614), 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 (2 hr.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Child survivors.
Antisemitism Prewar.
Crystal Night, 1938.
Hospitals in Jewish ghettos.
Childbirth in concentration camps.
Aid by non-Jews.
Postwar experiences. - 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. Kristallnacht, 1938. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Latvia--Rīga. Forced labor. Mothers and daughters. Fathers and daughters. Concentration camp inmates--Family relationships. Concentration camps--Psychological aspects. Sabotage. Death marches. Germany. Gelsenkirchen (Germany) Dortmund (Germany) Berlin (Germany) Essen (Germany) Bydgoszcz (Poland) Łódź (Poland) Israel. Oral histories (document genres) P., Lore,--1921- Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft (Germany) Stutthof (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4294224
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-29 11:58:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4294224
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