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Jean S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1331) interviewed by Nadine Weinstein and Trudy K. Turkel,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1331

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Jean S., who was born in 1928 in Rejowiec, Poland. She recalls attending Polish school where Jewish children were taunted; German invasion; fleeing with her family to the Russian occupied area; journey by train to the Ural Mountains; their return to Soviet-occupied Poland; travel by freight train for weeks to a Siberian labor camp; caring for her three siblings while her parents worked; transport to Uzbek, then Kazakh; attending school; her mother inviting an orphan (whom Mrs. S. later married) to live with them; and returning to Poland in 1944. Mrs. S. describes learning of the mass extermination of the Jews; fear of pogroms; flight to the American zone; her marriage in a displaced persons camp in Linz, Austria in 1946; the importance of aid received from UNRRA and HIAS; and emigration to the United States in 1947.
Author/Creator: S., Jean, 1928-
Published: Baltimore, Md. : Baltimore Jewish Council, 1989
Interview Date: October 29, 1989.
Locale: Rejowiec Lubelski (Poland)
Poland
Ural Mountains (Russia)
Uzbekistan
Kazakhstan
Siberia (Russia)
Cite As: Jean S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1331). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Weinstein, Nadine, interviewer.
Turkel, Trudy K., 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., 11 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Antisemitism Postwar.
Postwar experiences.
Child survivors.
Antisemitism Prewar.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Families. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Rejowiec Lubelski (Poland) Poland. Ural Mountains (Russia) Uzbekistan. Kazakhstan. Siberia (Russia) Oral histories (document genres) Refugee camps. S., Jean,--1928- United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. HIAS (Agency)

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/1055933
Record last modified:: 2018-05-30 11:32:00
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