- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Gina S., who was born in Sosnowiec, Poland in 1921, one of two children. She recalls moving to Katowice; attending boarding schools in Vienna and Hannover, where she lived with her maternal grandparents for two years; her mother 's death; returning to Poland; staying with a friend in Kraków; German invasion; returning home a week later; learning her family had gone to Sosnowiec; joining them; working for the German administration in early 1940 since she spoke German; her brother travelling to Kraków to sell saccharin; notification of his death; colleagues selling official work documents; interrogation when they were discovered; deportation to a factory; slave labor in a clothing factory; transfer to Parschnitz; tension between Hungarian and Polish prisoners; a Czech civilian worker leaving them extra food in the factory; transfer to Auschwitz, then Feldafing; liberation; moving to Prague, then Regensburg; working for UNRRA; and emigration to join relatives in Buenos Aires.
- Author/Creator
- S., Gina, 1921-
- Published
- Buenos Aires, Argentina : Fundacion "Memoria del Holocausto", 1995
- Interview Date
- 1995.
- Locale
- Poland
Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie, Poland)
Katowice (Poland)
Vienna (Austria)
Hannover (Germany)
Kraków (Poland)
Prague (Czech Republic)
Regensburg (Germany)
- Cite As
- Gina S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT̂̂̈̄-4479). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Huberman, Abraham, interviewer.
- Notes
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This testimony is in Spanish.
