- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Rose T., who was born in Poland and raised in an orthodox family. She recalls attending high school in Lublin; returning home for the summer in 1939; German invasion; deportation with her family to a farm; her younger sister's escape (she never saw her again); her father's and her younger siblings' escape with assistance from the camp Kommandant (she learned later they were denounced and killed); escaping from Chełm to Lublin; acquiring false papers with assistance from a Polish family; deportation as a non-Jewish slave laborer to Germany; her denouncement and imprisonment in Hannover, then Berlin; transfer to Auschwitz in 1943; working near the crematoria; escaping with her friend from the death march; and looking for her family after liberation. Mrs. T. recounts continuing to pose as a non-Jew after the war; how insignificant wealth became; marriage in Israel; adjusting to the United States; and writing a book about her experiences.
- Author/Creator
- T., Rose.
- Published
- Los Angeles, Calif. : UCLA Holocaust Documentation Archives, 1984
- Interview Date
- January 28, 1984.
- Locale
- Poland
Chełm (Lublin, Poland)
Lublin (Poland)
Hannover (Germany)
Berlin (Germany)
- Cite As
- Rose T. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-440). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Kinsler, Florabel, interviewer.
- Notes
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Related publication : Destiny / Rose Toren. -- New York : Shengold Publishers, c1991.
