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Sylvia K. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1425) interviewed by Irene Wasserkrug and Estelle Kandel,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1425

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Sylvia K., who was born in Smorgonʹ, Belarus (then Poland) and raised in Oshmyany. She recalls teaching kindergarten in Vilna; returning to Oshmyany; Soviet occupation; German invasion in 1941; the mass murder of Jewish men and boys, including her husband; ghettoization; her mother's deportation; transfer in 1943 with her sister, aunt and their children to several labor camps, then to Palemonas; a round-up of all children, including her daughter; transfer to the Kovno ghetto, then Stutthof; forced labor at several camps; sharing her clothes with her sister; and liberation by Soviet troops in 1944. She recounts working for the Soviets; traveling to Łódź; an extended hospitalization in Munich; marriage to her aunt's husband; her daughter's birth; and emigration to the United States in 1949. Mrs. K. details many incidents of life in ghettos and concentration camps.
Author/Creator: K., Sylvia.
Published: Baltimore, Md. : Baltimore Jewish Council, 1990
Interview Date: November 11, 1990.
Locale: Lithuania
Kaunas
Belarus
Ashmi︠a︡ny
Ashmi︠a︡ny (Belarus)
Poland
Smarhonʹ (Belarus)
Vilnius (Lithuania)
Łódź (Poland)
Munich (Germany)
Cite As: Sylvia K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1425). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Wasserkrug, Irene, interviewer.
Kandel, Estelle, interviewer.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (56 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Husband Death.
Mutual aid.
Postwar experiences.
Soviet occupation.
Mass killings.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jews--Lithuania--Kaunas. Jews--Belarus--Ashmi︠a︡ny. Jewish ghettos. Children--Death. Forced labor. Sisters. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Ashmi︠a︡ny (Belarus) Poland. Smarhonʹ (Belarus) Vilnius (Lithuania) Łódź (Poland) Munich (Germany) Oral histories (document genres) K., Sylvia. Palemonas (Concentration camp) Stutthof (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/1089276
Record last modified:: 2018-05-29 11:58:00
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