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Anna T. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1003) interviewed by Deborah Cardon and C. Pearlman,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1003

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Anna T., who was born in Poland in 1919. She recalls German occupation in 1939; her family's deportation in 1942 (she never saw her parents again); mass killings and round-ups; deportation to Krychow; escaping with two others; receiving shelter and food from Jews in a village; escaping to the woods during mass killings of the Jews; hiding in a barn with assistance from a Polish family; joining Jewish partisans; liquidation of the partisans; hiding in the woods with several others; and liberation by Soviet troops. Mrs. T. describes returning to her hometown; reunion with her sister and brother-in-law; traveling to Łódź, then Stettin; her first son's birth in Wallenburg; and emigration to the United States where her second son was born.
Author/Creator: T., Anna, 1919-
Published: Wilmette, Ill. : Holocaust Education Foundation, 1987
Interview Date: January 25, 1987.
Locale: Poland
Łódź (Poland)
Wallenburg (Germany)
Cite As: Anna T. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1003). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Pearlman, C., interviewer.
Cardon, Deborah, interviewer.
Notes: The audio quality of this testimony is poor.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 2 copies: 3/4 in. master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (36 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Partisans.
Forests.
Aid by non-Jews.
Mutual aid.
Postwar experiences.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance. Poland. Łódź (Poland) Wallenburg (Germany) Escapes. Oral histories (document genres) T., Anna,--1919-

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/1113645
Record last modified:: 2018-05-29 11:58:00
This page:: http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt1113645

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