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Sally F. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1339) interviewed by Renee L. Menasche and Barry Cohen,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1339

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Sally F., who was born in a small, Polish town in 1921. She recalls that her family moved to Łódź when she was nine months old; German invasion; ghettoization; her father's death of dysentery and starvation in 1942; deportation with her mother to Auschwitz in 1944; her mother's later selection; transfer six weeks later to a camp in Czechoslovakia; abusive treatment by SS women; pervasive hunger; one SS supervisor assisting the prisoners in avoiding return to Auschwitz; a French prisoner sharing food with her; and liberation by Soviet troops in May 1945. Mrs. F. describes returning to Łódź; travelling to Germany with an aunt and uncle; living in Neufreimann refugee camp; marriage in 1946; emigration to the United States in 1949; and three subsequent trips to Poland. She discusses her belief that survival was due to luck and the importance of survivor testimony.
Author/Creator: F., Sally, 1921-
Published: Baltimore, Md. : Baltimore Jewish Council, 1989
Interview Date: April 9, 1989.
Locale: Poland
Łódź
Łódź (Poland)
Cite As: Sally F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1339). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Menasche, Renee L., interviewer.
Cohen, Barry, interviewer.

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., 40 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Postwar experiences.
Mutual aid.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Forced labor. Jews--Poland--Łódź. Jewish ghettos. Mothers and daughters. Poland. Łódź (Poland) Oral histories (document genres) Refugee camps. F., Sally,--1921- Neu Freimann (Displaced persons camp) Auschwitz (Concentration 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/1055916
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:24:00
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