- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Rivka L., who was born in Zawiercie, Poland in 1919. She recalls pervasive antisemitism; attending college in Kraków until 1939; German invasion; confiscation of the family business in 1940; assistance from the man who ran their business; marriage; her privileged job in a German office; remaining with her husband after deportations; conversion of the ghetto to a labor camp; deportation to Auschwitz (she never saw her husband again); encountering her mother; trying to provide her with extra food; obtaining a privileged office job; working in the Union Kommando; learning her mother was "gone"; providing materials for the Sonderkommando uprising in October 1944; the death march in January; arrival at Ravensbrück; transfer to Leipzig; escape with four others from a death march; encountering United States soldiers; assistance from the Jewish chaplain; working in Markkleeberg; reunion with one brother; living with an uncle in Paris; illegal emigration to Palestine; marriage; and emigration to the United States. Mrs. L. discuss the importance of faith to her survival; sharing her story with her son; and the trauma of testifying at a war crimes trial in Hamburg, where the defendant was found innocent despite overwhelming evidence against him.
- Author/Creator
- L., Rivka, 1919-
- Published
- San Antonio, Tex. : Children of the Holocaust-Second Generation of San Antonio, 1989
- Interview Date
- July 16, 1989.
- Locale
- Poland
Zawiercie
Germany
Hamburg
Zawiercie (Poland)
Kraków (Poland)
Markkleeberg (Germany)
Palestine
- Cite As
- Rivka L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1483). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Braverman, Phyllis, interviewer.
- Notes
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This testimony has some technical defects.
