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Rose G. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2270) interviewed by Louise Goodman and Deborah Shelkan Remis,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2270

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Rose G., who was born in Nasielsk, Poland in 1914. She recounts living with her husband's family in Serock; the outbreak of war; incarceration with her parents-in-law and children in the Nasielsk synagogue; a mass shooting of sick people behind the synagogue; transfer with her family to Kock via Warsaw; her child's and parents-in-law's death due to starvation; working with her husband on a Polish farm; her other children's denouncement while she was hiding in a different place; transfer with her brother to Parczew; then to the Międzyrzecz ghetto; deportation after three months of slave labor in Majdanek to Auschwitz; hard labor and hunger; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; and liberation by British troops. Mrs. G. describes her marriage and daughter's birth in Bergen-Belsen after liberation and emigration to the United States in 1949.
Author/Creator: G., Rose, 1914-
Published: Peabody, Mass. : Holocaust Center of the Jewish Federation of the North Shore, 1992
Interview Date: March 13, 1992.
Locale: Poland
Międzyrzecz
Nasielsk (Poland)
Kock (Poland)
Parczew (Biała Podlaska, Poland)
Serock (Warsaw, Poland)
Cite As: Rose G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2270). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Goodman, Louise, interviewer.
Remis, Deborah Shelkan, 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., 38 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Mutual aid.
Postwar experiences.
Mass killings.
Hiding.
Husband Death.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Międzyrzecz. Forced labor. Children--Death. Poland. Nasielsk (Poland) Kock (Poland) Parczew (Biała Podlaska, Poland) Serock (Warsaw, Poland) Oral histories (document genres) G., Rose,--1914- DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen. Majdanek (Concentration camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Bergen-Belsen (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/1093082
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:31:00
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