Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Louise J., who was born in Kraków, Poland in 1925. She recalls a happy childhood in an affluent family; growing antisemitism in the late 1930s; German invasion; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization; hiding during round-ups, having been warned through her father's connections with the Judenrat; transfer to Płaszów in March 1943; separation from her father and brother; slave labor in an ammunition factory; her mother's deportation (she never saw her again); random killings and beatings by the Kommandant, Amon Goeth; public hangings; working briefly in Wieliczka with her father (she never saw him again); deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in 1944; hiding during selections; transfer to an ammunition factory in Oederan; evacuation to Terezín in April 1945; and liberation by Soviet troops on May 8. Mrs. J. recounts reunion with her brother in Terezín; nursing him when he had typhus; living in Landsberg displaced persons camp; working for UNRRA; marriage in 1947; her daughter's birth in 1949; and their emigration to the United States. Mrs. J. emphasizes the overwhelming effects of starvation.
- Published
- San Antonio, Tex. : Children of the Holocaust-Second Generation of San Antonio, 1988
- Interview Date
- March 20, 1988.
- Locale
- Poland
Kraków
Kraków (Poland) - Cite As
- Louise J. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1142). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
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Associated material: Solomon S. Holocaust testimony [brother] (HVT-1696), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 46 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Child survivors.
Hiding.
Postwar experiences. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Jewish councils. Mothers and daughters. Jewish ghettos. Fathers and daughters. Jews--Poland--Kraków. Brothers and sisters. Forced labor. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Poland. Kraków (Poland) Oral histories (document genres) Refugee camps. J., Louise,--1925- Göth, Amon,--1908-1946. Wieliczka (Concentration camp) Landsberg am Lech (Displaced persons camp) United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. Płaszów (Concentration camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp) Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) Oederan (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
-
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4283253
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:27:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4283253
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