- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Edith K., who was born in Kupno, Poland in 1929, the oldest of three children. She recounts her family's affluence; attending school in Kolbuszowa; her brother's death from illness; German invasion in 1939; eviction from their home; forced relocation to Głógow Małopolski; ghettoization weeks later; her father's former Polish employee smuggling her out of the ghetto; her parents and sister joining her at his home; leaving to hide in the forest, fearing exposure; relatives joining them; being attacked by partisans; separation from her sister and her aunt's family who were arrested and publicly executed; her parents sending her from the forest to live as a non-Jew with false papers; living as a housekeeper with a Polish family in Rzeszów; visiting her parents; a Polish woman who had helped her parents informing her they had been killed; living with that woman after the war; reunion with a distant cousin; visiting Kolbuszowa; living with another cousin in Mielec, then with friends in Bytom; traveling to Austria; living in Landsberg, then Prien displaced persons camps; emigration to the United States; living with a maternal aunt; and marriage. Ms. K. notes the killing of many relatives during the war.
- Author/Creator
- K., Edith, 1929-
- Published
- Union, N.J. : Kean College Oral Testimonies Project, 1989
- Interview Date
- June 12, 1989.
- Locale
- Poland
Głogów Małopolski
Wojcieszów (Poland)
Kolbuszowa (Poland)
Rzeszów (Poland)
Głogów Małopolski (Poland)
Bytom (Poland)
Mielec (Poland)
Austria
- Cite As
- Edith K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1545). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Lichstein, Dvorah, interviewer.
Weinstein, Bernard, interviewer.
