- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Emilia S. and her daughter Toni R., who was born in Stryĭ, Ukraine in 1940. Emilia S. recalls marriage in 1939; Soviet occupation; her daughter's birth in 1940; German invasion in 1941; round-ups and killings; teaching her daughter to identify herself as a Catholic; obtaining false papers for her daughter; arranging with a non-Jewish woman to take her daughter to a priest; hiding with her husband in a bunker, with assistance from a Polish couple, for over two years; liberation by Soviet troops in 1944; moving to Sanok; her husband's difficulties getting their daughter back from the foster mother, who refused to give her up; reunion with her daughter; living in Kraków; leaving Poland due to antisemitism; living in the Badgastein displaced persons camp; joining her husband in Berlin; her sons's birth; visiting her brothers in Israel in 1950; and emigrating with her family to the United States. Mrs. R. describes childhood memories of a sense of abandonment; confusion about her identity; reunion with her parents; fearing that her parents might abandon her again; learning stories of her parents' friends and relatives; comparing them with her experiences; and developing her own sense of identity.
- Author/Creator
- R., Toni, 1940-
- Published
- Los Angeles, Calif. : UCLA Holocaust Documentation Archives, 1984
- Interview Date
- January 29, 1984.
- Locale
- Poland
Stryĭ (Ukraine)
Sanok (Poland)
Kraków (Poland)
Berlin (Germany)
- Cite As
- Toni R. and Emilia S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-447). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Dunn, Vera, interviewer.
Kinsler, Florabel, interviewer.
