Idessa C. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4477)
Videotape testimony of Idessa C., who was born in Staszów, Russia (presently Poland) in 1915, the youngest of five children. She recounts working at a a magazine; German invasion; ghettoization; slave labor in Kielce at HASAG Granat; transfer to Skarżysko-Kamienna; slave labor in a munitions factory; transfer to Leipzig in 1944; slave labor in a clothing factory; liberation; transport to Łódź; contact with her brother's family in Argentina (her brother had died); and joining them in 1946. Ms. C. notes the difficultly of conveying what she experienced to those who were “not there.”
- Published
- Buenos Aires, Argentina : Fundacion "Memoria del Holocausto", 1995
- Interview Date
- July 21, 1995.
- Locale
- Poland
Staszów (Województwo Świętokrzyskie)
Russia
Staszów (Województwo Świętokrzyskie, Poland)
Łódź (Poland) - Language
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Spanish
- Copies
- 1 copy: VHS master.
- Cite As
- Idessa C. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4477). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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View in Yale University Library Catalog: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/12525052
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