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Esther G. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1434) interviewed by Natalie Lederman and Zelda Kaplan,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1434

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Esther G., who was born in Mutvitsa, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1934. She recalls the warmth of Sabbath observance; Soviet occupation; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions resulting in a sense of isolation; her mother arranging for a farmer to hide Mrs. G. and her brothers; betrayal by the farmer; a German guard letting her go (she never saw her brothers again); being hidden again by the same farmer who had betrayed her; retrieval by her mother, who escaped the ghetto's liquidation (her father was killed); posing as a Christian; hiding in several places while her mother was in the partisans; efforts to conceal but not forget her Jewish identity; and constant fear and loneliness. Mrs. G. recounts evacuation to German camps as the Soviets advanced; reunion with her mother; continued anxiety about revealing her Jewish identity; living with a non-Jewish family in Pinsk; her mother's remarriage; emigration to Austria; living in the Bindermichl displaced persons camp where she started school and began to "sort things out"; emigration to the United States in 1949; and her inability to discuss her experience until 1985.
    Author/Creator
    G., Esther, 1934-
    Published
    Peabody, Mass. : Holocaust Center of the Jewish Federation of the North Shore, 1990
    Interview Date
    January 31, 1990.
    Locale
    Poland
    Mutvitsa (Ukraine)
    Pinsk (Belarus)
    Cite As
    Esther G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1434). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Lederman, Natalie, 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 (1 hr., 7 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Child survivors.
    Soviet occupation.
    Aid by non-Jews.
    Hiding.
    Postwar effects.
    Postwar experiences.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1094382
    Record last modified:
    2018-05-30 11:44:00
    This page:
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