Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Pola M., who was raised in S̆iauliai, Lithuania. She recalls the rich, cultural Jewish life; attending Hebrew school; Soviet occupation; German invasion; anti-Jewish measures; learning of mass killings; her father's arrest and deportation (they never saw him again); ghettoization; forced labor at airfields, then in the Radvilis̆kis and Baciunai labor camps; feelings of helplessness after a public hanging in June 1943, which the Jewish Council tried to prevent but had to carry out; transformation of the ghetto into a concentration camp in September; the "children's action" on November 5; and deportation with her family to Stutthof via Pavenciai in July 1944. Mrs. M. describes separation from her brother and grandmother (she never saw them again); transfer to several camps with her mother and two aunts; disappearance of German guards during a death march; returning to S̆iauliai; fleeing to Germany after learning that her father and brother had not survived; and emigrating to the United States with her mother. Mrs. M. discusses the importance to her survival of being with her mother and aunts, and sharing these experiences with her children.
- Published
- Wilmette, Ill. : Holocaust Education Foundation, 1983
- Interview Date
- October 30, 1983.
- Locale
- Lithuania
Šiauliai
Šiauliai (Lithuania)
Nemunėlio Radviliškis (Lithuania)
Baciunai (Lithuania)
Pavenciai, Stotis (Lithuania) - Cite As
- P0la M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-555). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Mutual aid.
Soviet occupation.
Postwar experiences.
Postwar effects.
Survivor-child relations. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jewish ghettos. Forced labor. Jews--Lithuania--Šiauliai. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Jewish councils. Brothers and sisters. Mothers and daughters. Death marches. Oral histories (document genres) Lithuania. Šiauliai (Lithuania) Nemunėlio Radviliškis (Lithuania) Baciunai (Lithuania) Pavenciai, Stotis (Lithuania) M., Pola. Stutthof (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
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/1108246
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-29 11:58:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt1108246
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