- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Sara C., who was born in Druysk, Russia in 1910. In two separate interviews Mrs. C. recalls her parents' deaths when she was a child; living with an aunt in Latvia; marriage at age nineteen; and her son's birth nine years later. She recounts arrival of the Germans; round-ups; ghettoization; her husband's disappearance in March 1943 (she later learned he was killed); hiding in the forests near Vilna with her son, then in a house with an old woman for one year, in a potato cellar and another place where they were infested with lice; her son dissuading her from surrendering themselves; and liberation by Soviet soldiers. Mrs. C. describes returning to her village; remarriage; living four and a half years in displaced persons camps in Germany; emigration to the United States; and the birth of her daughter in 1951.
- Author/Creator
- C., Sara, 1910-
- Published
- Ventnor, N.J. : Federation of Jewish Agencies of Atlantic County/Stockton State College, Holocaust Oral History Project, 1989
- Interview Date
- September 14, 1989 and August 19, 1988.
- Locale
- Druĭsk (Belarus)
Vilnius (Lithuania)
Latvia
- Cite As
- Sara C. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1129). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Karp, Rochelle, interviewer.
Epstein, Alice, interviewer.
Tannenbaum, Elaine, interviewer.
