- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Sally S., who was born in Przemyślany, Poland in 1923. She describes her close and large immediate and extended family; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in 1941; anti-Jewish measures; the Judenrat organizing forced labor; mass killing of men, including her father and uncle; incarceration in a forced labor camp; obtaining permission from the Judenrat to return to the ghetto; her mother's death; hiding with her brothers in a bunker during the ghetto's liquidation in May 1943; escaping with them to the woods; building bunkers; assistance from her sister who was hidden by non-Jews; joining partisans after a massacre (during which her brothers were killed); and liberation by Soviet troops in June 1944. Mrs. S. relates returning to Przemyślany with her sister; traveling to Ternopilʹ, then to Katowice; joining her sister in a kibbutz in Sosnowiec; moving to Kraków; marriage in Breslau; fleeing with her husband and sister via Frankfurt to the Bad Reichenhall displaced persons camp; and emigration to the United States in July 1949. She discusses her American family's lack of interest in her experiences; her inner suffering and inability to convey what she went through in words; and the exhilaration of her visits to Israel.
- Author/Creator
- S., Sally, 1923-
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1989
- Interview Date
- May 7, 1989.
- Locale
- Poland
Peremyshli︠a︡ny (Ukraine)
Ternopilʹ (Ukraine)
Katowice (Poland)
Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie, Poland)
Kraków (Poland)
Wrocław (Poland)
- Cite As
- Sally S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1199). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Strochlic, Kathy, interviewer.
Schiff, Gabriele, interviewer.
