Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Riva K., who was born in 1918 in Kaunas, Lithuania. She describes a happy childhood; moving to Memel (Klaipėda) with her husband; invasion and occupation by the Soviets; occupation by the Germans in 1941; being sent to the Šiauliai ghetto; work in the leather factory; her husband’s arrest and murder; the deportation of her three daughters to Auschwitz (they were killed there); deportation to Landsberg concentration camp; terrible conditions there; work in the kitchen; death march to Dachau; and liberation. She recounts testifying at the Dachau trial; living in Munich; receiving care at St. Ottilien displaced persons camp; meeting and marrying her second husband; and moving to the United States with her new family. Mrs. K discusses feeling guilt for living when the rest of her family was killed; and sharing wartime experience with others, including her children. She shows photographs.
- Published
- Brookline, Mass. : Brookline Holocaust Witness Project, 1991
- Interview Date
- May 23, 1991 and June 5, 1991
- Locale
- Lithuania
Šiauliai
Kaunas (Lithuania)
Klaipėda (Lithuania)
Šiauliai (Lithuania)
Sankt Ottilien (Germany)
Munich (Germany)
Bad Wörishofen (Germany)
New York (N.Y.) - Cite As
- Riva K. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4502). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
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This testimony is in English.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (2 hr. 30 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Postwar experiences.
Survivor-child relationships. - Subjects
- Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Holocaust survivors. Jewish ghettos. Forced labor. Refugee camps. Jews--Lithuania--Šiauliai. Death marches. Dachau Trial, Dachau, Germany, 1946. Kaunas (Lithuania) Klaipėda (Lithuania) Šiauliai (Lithuania) Sankt Ottilien (Germany) Munich (Germany) Bad Wörishofen (Germany) New York (N.Y.) Oral histories (document genres) K., Riva,--1918- Landsberg (Concentration camp) Dachau (Concentration camp) HIAS (Agency) International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/14106615
- Record last modified:
- 2019-07-11 16:57:00
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