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Janet A. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2267) interviewed by Evelyn Umlas and Zelda Kaplan,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2267

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Janet A., who was born in Kraków, Poland in 1935. She remembers the outbreak of war; fleeing east with her parents and baby sister; remaining in Vinniki when her father joined the Polish army; returning with her parents from Soviet to German-occupied Poland; an unsuccessful escape attempt from the Nowy Targ ghetto; her sister's death; her parents placing her with a non-Jewish nursemaid; several weeks later visiting her parents in the Kraków ghetto (she never saw her mother again); her father acquiring the birth certificate of a deceased Polish child for her; living with a cousin, then with a Polish woman who placed her on a farm with a Polish family; and reunion with her father after the war. Mrs. A. describes living in constant fear of Poles; emigration to the United States; adjustment to a new life; and she discusses the trauma of feeling abandoned as a child.
Author/Creator: A., Janet, 1935-
Published: Peabody, Mass. : Holocaust Center of the Jewish Federation of the North Shore, 1990
Interview Date: January 16, 1990.
Locale: Poland
Kraków
Kraków (Poland)
Nowy Targ (Województwo Małopolskie, Poland)
Vinniki (Ukraine)
Cite As: Janet A. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2267). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Umlas, Evelyn, interviewer.
Kaplan, Zelda, interviewer.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (50 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Child survivors.
Hiding.
False papers.
Aid by non-Jews.
Postwar experiences.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Kraków. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Psychological aspects. Poland. Kraków (Poland) Nowy Targ (Województwo Małopolskie, Poland) Vinniki (Ukraine) Oral histories (document genres) A., Janet,--1935-

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/1093083
Record last modified:: 2018-05-29 11:58:00
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