Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Pearl K., who was born in Zwierzyniec, Poland in 1922 to a family of eight children. She recounts moving to Warsaw around 1925; their poverty; attending Jewish labor movement schools; the deaths of her mother, sister, and sister's child in the German bombardment; ghettoization; starvation, lice, lack of sanitation, and frequent deaths; working outside of Warsaw in a sanatorium for Jewish children; support from the Bund; obtaining false papers; hiding when the sanitorium was liquidated; returning to Warsaw with assistance from a Pole; acting as a courier for the underground; contact with Poles and Jews in hiding including her brother; traveling to a village after the 1944 Warsaw uprising; working as a domestic; liberation by Soviet troops; returning to Warsaw; reunion with her brother; living in Lublin, then Łodź; antisemitic incidents; living in Sweden, Poland, and Germany; and emigrating to the United States. Mrs. K. discusses her fears and pessimism resulting from her experiences.
- Published
- Wilmette, Ill. : Holocaust Education Foundation, 1984
- Interview Date
- December 16, 1984.
- Locale
- Poland
Warsaw
Zwierzyniec (Poland)
Warsaw (Poland)
Lublin (Poland)
Łódź (Poland)
Sweden
Germany - Cite As
- Pearl K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-587). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 3 copies: 3/4 in. master; 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 22 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Hiding.
Aid by non-Jews.
False papers.
Postwar effects.
Resistance.
Antisemitism Postwar.
Postwar experiences. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Brothers and sisters. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jews--Poland--Warsaw. Jewish ghettos. Orphanages. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Poland. World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance. Poland. Zwierzyniec (Poland) Warsaw (Poland) Lublin (Poland) Łódź (Poland) Warsaw (Poland)--History--Uprising, 1944. Sweden. Germany. Oral histories (document genres) K., Pearl,--1922- Allgemeyner Idisher arbayṭerbund in Liṭa, Poylen un Rusland.
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/1110347
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-29 11:58:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt1110347
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