- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Liza S., who was born in Lut︠s︡ʹk, Poland in 1925. She recalls ghettoization in 1941; her younger sister's murder; forced labor near Kremenet︠s︡ʹ; falling in love with another prisoner; being smuggled to visit her family in Lut︠s︡ʹk; transfer with her boyfriend to the Kremenet︠s︡ʹ ghetto; and feigning death when all the Jews were shot in a pit. Mrs. S. recounts climbing naked from the pit at night; discovering that her boyfriend had also survived; hiding for six months in the forest; receiving assistance from local people; her boyfriend's murder when he visited his family, hiding elsewhere; living for three months with one family; leaving when neighbors became suspicious; dreaming her father told her to pose as a deaf mute and then doing so; arrest by Soviet troops as a spy; escaping to Jews in a nearby village; and finding two Jewish children who had been living with Christian families. She recounts her marriage to a survivor; her son's birth; emigration to the United States; her second son's birth; and learning that her brother had survived through a list in the Forṿerṭs published the day of her son's Bar Mitzvah.
- Author/Creator
- S., Liza, 1925-
- Published
- Baltimore, Md. : Baltimore Jewish Council, 1990
- Interview Date
- January 21, 1990.
- Locale
- Ukraine
Kremenet︠s︡ʹ.
Lut︠s︡ʹk
Poland
Lut︠s︡ʹk (Ukraine)
- Cite As
- Liza S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1413). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Siegel, Dorothy G., interviewer.
Goodman, Paul, interviewer.
- Notes
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This testimony is in Yiddish.
