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Suzanne T. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2308) interviewed by Helen Cohn and Nathan Wolkowitz,

Oral History | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2308

Videotape testimony of Suzanne T., who was born in Vishnevo, Poland in 1920. She recounts being reared by her aunt in Svirʹ after her mother's and grandmother's deaths; attending school in Vilna; Soviet occupation; living with her father in Vishnevo; German invasion; hiding with a non-Jewish farmer; returning to the ghetto to save her uncle; forced labor in Ziezmariai and other camps; public executions; deportation to Stutthof; separation from her aunt upon their arrival; obtaining extra food and sharing it with her friends; and escaping with her friends during a death march. Mrs. T. describes hiding with assistance from a Pole; moving near Kaszuby, posing as non-Jews; liberation by Soviet troops; her marriage in Bydgoszcz; hearing about antisemitic violence; fleeing to Ebensee with assistance from Beriḥah, then Hofgeismar displaced persons camps; her son's birth in 1947; working for a Jewish agency in Munich; her severe depression; emigrating to Israel in 1949; her second son's birth in 1950; and emigrating to the United States. She emphasizes the importance of friendship to her survival.

Author/Creator
T., Suzanne, 1920-
Published
Houston, Tex. : Holocaust Education Center and Memorial Museum of Houston, 1993
Interview Date
January 19, 1993.
Locale
Poland
Vishneva (Minskai︠a︡ voblastsʹ, Belarus)
Svir (Belarus)
Vilnius (Lithuania)
Bydgoszcz (Poland)
Munich (Germany)
Kaszuby (Poland)
Israel
Language
English
Copies
2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Cite As
Suzanne T. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2308). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
 
View in Yale University Library Catalog: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4287299
Record last modified: 2018-06-04 13:28:00
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