- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Hilda F., who was born in Storojinet, Romania (today Storozhinets, Ukraine), in 1920. Mrs. F. describes her childhood in a civil servant's family; rallies by anti-Semitic Romanian political movements; Soviet occupation; killings of Jews by withdrawing Romanians; being sent as a teacher to a small village; returning home; and being rounded up with other Jews by returning Romanian troops in June 1941. She tells of a Christian friend who helped her; being sent with her family to the Storojinet ghetto; arrest and detention as a former "communist" teacher; expulsion of her town's Jews from Romania; a forced march from the Dniester River to Bershad;̓ her parents' and brother's deaths in the Bershad ̓ghetto during winter 1941-42; a friendship she formed with a younger girl; establishment of the Judenrat; and a ghetto resistance group, whose members were caught and tortured. She discusses going with ghetto orphans to Balta for repatriation to Romania; liberation by Soviet troops in April 1944; postwar marriage in Bucharest; reunion with her surviving sister in Paris; arrival in America in 1951; and the role of sustaining personal relationships in her survival.
- Author/Creator
- F., Hilda, 1920-
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale, 1986
- Interview Date
- April 12, 1986.
- Locale
- Romania
Storojineț
Ukraine
Bershad.̓.
Dniester River Valley (Ukraine and Moldova)
Balta (Ukraine)
Bucharest (Romania)
Paris (France)
Storoz︠h︡ynet︠s︡ʹ (Ukraine)
- Cite As
- Hilda F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-692). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Moskowitz, Sally, interviewer.
Moskowitz, Michael, interviewer.
