- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Sarah L., who was born in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland in 1920. She recalls working as a bookkeeper; participation in a Zionist youth group; increasing antisemitism in the mid-1930s; German invasion; ghettoization; assistance from non-Jewish friends; being selected with her parents to work when the ghetto was converted to a camp in 1942 (over 20,000 were deported to Treblinka); deportation with her mother to Ravensbrück in November 1944; sharing extra food with her; their transfer to Bergen-Belsen; liberation by British troops; her mother's death; learning her father was at Buchenwald; transfer to the displaced persons camp there; returning to Poland; finding two surviving cousins; living in Regensburg displaced person camp; marriage in 1948; and their emigration to the United States in 1949. Mrs. L. discusses numbing herself to horrors in the camps; deriving energy to survive from her mother's dependence; only four out of eighty surviving from her family; and her father living with her until his death.
- Author/Creator
- L., Sarah, 1920-
- Published
- San Antonio, Tex. : Children of the Holocaust-Second Generation of San Antonio, 1987
- Interview Date
- June 7, 1987.
- Locale
- Poland
Piotrków Trybunalski
Piotrków Trybunalski (Poland)
- Cite As
- Sarah L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-922). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Rauch, Tina, interviewer.
Tsukifuji, Billie, interviewer.
