Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Ida L., who was born in Kraków, Poland in 1923. She recalls antisemitic incidents during her childhood; activities in a Zionist youth group; harsh conditions in the Kraków ghetto; smuggling food to share with her sister; one sister's deportation to Auschwitz; transfer to Płaszów when the ghetto was liquidated in 1943; working in the laundry; random killings by camp commander Amon Goeth; a Jewish doctor being severely beaten and displayed in a wheel barrow as an example of punishment for helping others; declining to escape with help from a Polish friend fearing retribution against the other prisoners; her brother's deportation to Auschwitz (she never saw him again); transfer to Auschwitz; the death march to Bergen-Belsen; the importance of helping each other; liberation by British troops; and recuperating in a German hospital under British supervision. Mrs. L. describes learning she had no family left; her marriage in Sweden; and emigration ten years later to the United States.
- Published
- Kansas City, Mo. : Midwest Center for Holocaust Education, Inc., 1994
- Interview Date
- May 11, 1994.
- Locale
- Poland
Kraków
Kraków (Poland)
Sweden - Cite As
- Ida L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2461). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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., 56 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Zionist organizations.
Postwar experiences.
Mutual aid.
Aid by non-Jews.
Antisemitism Prewar. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jewish ghettos. Forced labor. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Jews--Poland--Kraków. Poland. Kraków (Poland) Sweden. Oral histories (document genres) Death marches. L., Ida,--1923-2009. Göth, Amon,--1908-1946. Płaszów (Concentration camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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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/1096685
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-30 11:44:00
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- http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt1096685
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