a| HVT-1073

9| (YL)FLV7185

a| 4283154

9| FLV7189YL

a| CtY b| eng c| CtY e| appm

a| (OCoLC)1005110815

b| HVT-1073

a| T., Pnina, d| 1913-

a| Pnina T. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1073) h| [videorecording] / c| interviewed by Tamar Shushan and Raya Adler, f| July 27, 1984.

a| Ramat Aviv, Israel : b| Beth Hatefutsoth, Nahum Goldman Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, c| 1984.

a| 1 videorecording (3 hr., 3 min.) : b| col.

a| Videotape testimony of Pnina T., who was born in Pilviškiai, Russia (presently Lithuania) in 1913. She recalls attending high school in Kaunas and university in Vilnius; marriage in 1934; living in Kaunas; her daughter's birth; plans to emigrate to Palestine; briefly visiting there with her husband in 1939 to finalize arrangements; Soviet occupation; not being able to emigrate when the borders were sealed; deportation of her parents and one brother to Siberia; German invasion in June 1941; arrest by Lithuanians; her daughter's non-Jewish nanny claiming to be the child's mother; her arrest as well; separation from the men (she never saw her husband again); release with her daughter and the nanny after three days; sending packages to her husband through the nanny; futile efforts to obtain his release; ghettoization; learning her brother, brother-in-law, husband, and other relatives had been murdered; hiding her daughter during round-ups; smuggling food with help from a German guard; a Jewish man (her future husband) bringing her packages from the nanny; learning through the Jewish underground that one of her brothers was alive in Vilnius; participating in a literary club; pregnant women having abortions or hiding their pregnancies since giving birth was illegal; her future husband and the nanny arranging for her daughter to be hidden, with assistance from a priest; bringing her to a monastery; returning to the ghetto; a nun bringing her daughter to live with a widow in a village; learning her daughter was ill; escaping to visit her; remaining with the widow and her daughter; arranging for her future husband to join them; and liberation by Soviet troops. Ms. T. notes they are still in touch with their rescuer and her son.

a| This testimony is in Hebrew.

a| Pnina T. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1073). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

d| Related material: Avraham T. Holocaust testimony [husband](HVT-3332), a| Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

e| 4 copies: b| 3/4 in. dub; b| Betacam SP restoration master; b| Betacam SP restoration submaster; b| and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.

a| T., Pnina, d| 1913-

a| Holocaust survivors. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061527

a| Video tapes. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143214

a| Women. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85147274

a| Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) v| Personal narratives. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061518

a| World War, 1939-1945 v| Personal narratives, Jewish. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148465

a| Jewish ghettos. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95007077

a| Jews z| Lithuania z| Kaunas.

a| World War, 1939-1945 x| Jewish resistance. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148517

a| Mothers and daughters. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85087538

a| Husband and wife. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85063204

a| Escapes. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85044783

a| Monasteries. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85086690

a| Russia. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80001203

a| Pilviškiai (Lithuania) 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2012030925

a| Kaunas (Lithuania) 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81089100

a| Vilnius (Lithuania) 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82166208

a| Palestine. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85097163

a| Oral histories (document genres) 2| aat 0| http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595

a| Soviet occupation.

a| Aid by non-Jews.

a| Husband x| Death.

a| Hiding.

a| Kovno ghetto.

a| Shushan, Tamar, e| interviewer.

a| Adler, Raya, e| interviewer. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85030049

a| Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, b| Yale University Library, e| Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240.

b| 4662103

y| Digital testimony (mssa.hvt.1073) u| https://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/2f7jq0ss21

y| For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. u| https://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/