Overview
- Summary
- Videotape of Sonia G., who was born in Łochów, Poland in 1912, one of ten children. She recalls working in Warsaw starting at age fifteen; moving to a hakhsharat from 1932 to 1933 to prepare for immigration to Palestine; increasing antisemitism; returning to Łochów; emigrating to Brussels in 1938 (she never saw her family again); joining a Jewish socialist organization; a mock marriage to obtain Belgian citizenship; joining the Resistance; arrest; incarceration at Malines; deportation to Birkenau; useless slave labor; transfer to Canada Kommando; slashing clothing she sorted; close bonds with a group of Belgians; smuggling clothes to friends; the Sonderkommando revolt; a woman giving birth (the baby was killed to save everyone); public hanging of four women who stole explosives; the death march to Leipzig, Malchow, Ravensbrück, and Bunzlau; assistance from friends when she had typhus; obtaining extra food doing farm work and from Red Cross packages; being saved from execution by a guard; liberation by Soviets troops; recuperating in a Red Cross camp; repatriation to Liège and Brussels; and meeting her future husband. Mrs. G. discusses group solidarity and its importance to survival; feeling she had lost everything; sharing her experience with her son; and difficulty believing it happened. She shows photographs.
- Published
- Brussels, Belgium : Fondation Auschwitz, 1992
- Interview Date
- May 6, 1992.
- Locale
- Belgium
Łochów (Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland)
Poland
Warsaw (Poland)
Brussels (Belgium)
Liège (Belgium) - Cite As
- Sonia G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1983). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
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This testimony is in French.
Physical Details
- Language
- French
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (3 hr., 9 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- False papers.
Zionist organizations.
Antisemitism Prewar.
Resistance.
Aid by non-Jews.
Childbirth in concentration camps.
Concentration camps Revolts.
Mutual aid.
Survivor-child relations. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Belgium. Forced labor. Friendship. Jews--Migrations. Jewish refugees. Sabotage. Concentration camps--Psychological aspects. Death marches. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Łochów (Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland) Poland. Warsaw (Poland) Brussels (Belgium) Liège (Belgium) Oral histories (document genres) G., Sonia,--1912- Ḥevrat "Hakhsharat ha-yishuv" (Palestine) Malines (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Ravensbrück (Concentration camp) International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. Malchow (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4285436
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:27:00
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