- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Irene B., who was born in Sokołów Podlaski, Poland in 1930. She recalls her parents' non-Kosher butcher business; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; ghettoization; working on a farm with her parents and siblings; her parents arranging for her to stay on the farm; the ghetto's liquidation in 1942; her father and brother escaping to the farm; her sister's deportation; her mother remaining in the ghetto, sorting clothes and possessions of deported Jews; her mother arranging for her to hide with a Polish woman; persuading the woman also to hide her brother; liberation by Soviet troops; learning their mother had been killed and who killed her; traveling to Łódź with an uncle; and smuggling themselves to Germany. Mrs. B. discusses feeling abandoned when her parents left her on the farm; watching birds with her brother while in hiding; her continuing fears and sense of always running; and her close relationship with her brother.
- Author/Creator
- B., Irene, 1930-
- Published
- Wilmette, Ill. : Holocaust Education Foundation, 1992
- Interview Date
- November 15, 1992.
- Locale
- Poland
Sokołów Podlaski
Sokołów Podlaski (Poland)
Łódź (Poland)
- Cite As
- Irene B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2318). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Roth, Elsa, interviewer.
Kraft, Sondra, interviewer.
- Notes
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Associated material: Aaron E. Holocaust testimony [brother] (HVT-2317), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
