- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Toby F., who was born in Chernyt︠s︡i︠a︡, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1926. She describes celebrating Shabbat and holidays; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in 1941; having to provide gold and wheat to the Germans; ghettoization in Brody; returning with her sister to Chernyt︠s︡i︠a︡ (her parents and other siblings stayed behind); separation from her sister, who returned to Brody; her mother's arrival after the liquidation of the ghetto (her father, brother, and two sisters had been killed); hiding in the forest and with non-Jews; occasionally meeting her mother who was hiding elsewhere; liberation by Soviet troops; moving with her mother to Podkamenʹ, Kremenet︠s︡ʹ, Lʹviv, then to a cousin's in Dubno; living in Pocking and Föhrenwald displaced persons camps; assistance from UNRRA; her mother's stroke; visiting her in a Munich hospital; her mother's emigration to join relatives in the United States; moving to Bad Wörishofen displaced persons camp; marriage; and her own emigration to the United States in 1949 with assistance from HIAS and relatives. Ms. F. shows photographs and discusses her books and paintings.
- Author/Creator
- F., Toby, 1926-
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1992
- Interview Date
- October 29, 1992.
- Locale
- Ukraine
Brody (Lʹvivsʹka oblastʹ)
Poland
Chernyt︠s︡i︠a︡ (Lʹvivsʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine)
Podkamenʹ (Ukraine)
Kremenet︠s︡ʹ (Ukraine)
Lʹviv (Ukraine)
Dubno (Ukraine)
Munich (Germany)
- Cite As
- Toby F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2221). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Blinderman, Joni-Sue, interviewer.
- Notes
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Related publication: Memories of my life in a Polish village, 1930-1949 / paintings, drawings, and text by Toby Knobel Fluek. -- 1st ed. -- New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c1990.
Related publication: Passover as I remember it / written by Toby Knobel Fluek with Lillian Fluek Finkler ; illustrated by Toby Knobel Fluek. -- New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c1994.
