- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Rebecca P., who was born in Poland in 1920, one of five children. She recalls attending a village school; living with an aunt in order to attend school in Zamość; German invasion then withdrawal a week later, followed by Soviet invasion, their withdrawal, then German occupation; one brother leaving with the Soviets; another hiding with his wife and child as non-Jews; escaping with her mother from a round-up; hiding in the woods; neighbors bringing them food; round-up to Izbica; ghettoization; marriage; her husband's killing two months later; her mother's deportation; escaping with others to the woods; hiding in attics in houses of three different Poles for thirty months; five months prior to liberation living openly as a servant (the others remained in the attic); escaping with the others to Zamość; liberation by Soviet troops; living with returning survivors; marriage to one three months later; traveling to Wrocław; her daughter's birth; assistance from UNRRA; living in the Bergen-Belsen and Eschwegge displaced persons camps; her husband's severe illness; his hospitalization in Göttingen; visits from two brothers who had survived; and emigration to the United States thirty months later.
- Author/Creator
- P., Rebecca, 1920-
- Published
- Milwaukee, Wis. : Generation After of Milwaukee, 1988
- Interview Date
- December 28, 1988.
- Locale
- Poland
Zamość (Poland)
Izbica Lubelska (Poland)
Wrocław (Poland)
Göttingen (Germany)
- Cite As
- Rebecca P. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4457). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Jubelirer, Shelly, interviewer.
Chaet, Gitta, interviewer.
