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Yetta G. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2297) interviewed by Uri Rueveni and Mira Rueveni,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2297

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Yetta G., who was born in Poland in 1924, the youngest of ten children. She recounts her father and one brother were butchers; attending cheder; German invasion; hiding with a sister and two brothers in a hole they dug under the floor; her parents being taken (she never saw them again); escaping to the forest; hiding for over three years with a Polish farmer who knew her brother and father; occasionally hiding in the forest when Germans were near; liberation by Soviet troops; her brothers' draft into the Soviet military; marriage; traveling to Chełm, then Łódź; learning one of her brothers was in Israel; moving to Florence, Italy; her son's birth; her sister's emigration to the United States; and joining her in 1950. Ms. G. notes sharing her story with her children.
Author/Creator: G., Yetta, 1924-
Published: Houston, Tex. : Holocaust Education Center and Memorial Museum of Houston, 1992
Interview Date: March 29, 1992.
Locale: Poland
Chełm (Lublin, Poland)
Łódź (Poland)
Florence (Italy)
Cite As: Yetta G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2297). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Rueveni, Mira, interviewer.
Notes: This testimony is in Yiddish.

Physical Details

Language: Yiddish
Copies: 4 copies: 3/4 in. dub; Betacam SP restoration master; Betacam SP restoration submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (1 hr.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Hiding.
Aid by non-Jews.
Forests.
Postwar experiences.
Survivor-child relations.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Sisters. Brothers and sisters. Escapes. Poland. Chełm (Lublin, Poland) Łódź (Poland) Florence (Italy) Oral histories (document genres) G., Yetta,--1924-

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/4287250
Record last modified:: 2018-05-30 11:40:00
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