- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Ludmila P., who was born in Kishinev, Romania in 1920 and raised in Łowicz, Poland. She recounts her father's death in 1934; studying medicine in Vienna in 1937; returning to Poland after the Anschluss; refusal of admission to the University of Vilna because she was Jewish; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; deportation with her mother to Kraków; marriage; her mother's deportation to the Warsaw ghetto (Mrs. P. visited her there); working at a munitions factory; transfer with her husband to Płaszów in March 1943; constant fear, killings, and public hangings; arranging to be on Schindler's list with her husband for transfer to Czechoslovakia; her husband's departure with the men for Brněnec; deportation with the women and children to Auschwitz; their transfer to Brněnec three weeks later; and reunion with her husband. Mrs. P. describes the humane atmosphere at Schindler's factory; his wife's assisting her sick friend; the prisoners honoring Schindler's birthday; liberation by Soviet troops; traveling with her husband to Munich; their emigration to the United States in 1947; and a trip with her husband and daughter to Poland in 1972.
- Author/Creator
- P., Ludmila, 1920-
- Published
- Los Angeles, Calif. : UCLA Holocaust Documentation Archives, 1984
- Interview Date
- October 21, 1984.
- Locale
- Poland
Kraków
Warsaw
Romania
Chișinău (Moldova)
Łowicz (Poland)
Vienna (Austria)
Kraków (Poland)
Munich (Germany)
Austria
- Cite As
- Ludmila P. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-434). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Zilberstein, Clara, interviewer.
Bubis, Ruby, interviewer.
- Notes
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Associated material : Leopold P. Holocaust testimony [husband] (HVT-433), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
