- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Lucy R., who was born in Poland in 1920, one of eight children. She recalls her family's move to Krosno; German invasion; marriage in 1940; ghettoization; her father's death; transfer with her family to a concentration camp in Krosno; working in the laundry; separation from her mother and brother; her brother's escape and return; transfer to Płaszów with her mother, brother, and husband; Amon Goeth randomly shooting prisoners; her brother hiding during the children's deportation; her husband's and brother's transfer to Mauthausen; her transfer to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944; finding her mother there; transfer to Stutthof; dreaming her father told her to return home for Passover; a death march; escaping with five others; hiding in a pig pen; discovery by the farmer; arrest; escaping and hiding in another house; liberation by Soviet troops; receiving food and protection from a local woman; recovering in Bydgoszcz; and learning of her husband's death. Mrs. R. recounts meeting her second husband in Kraków; learning her mother was killed in Krosno after the war; living in Bindermichl displaced persons camp; locating her brother; reunion with her sister; working for Beriḥah; marriage in Austria; and emigration to the United States.
- Author/Creator
- R., Lucy, 1920-
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1993
- Interview Date
- May 23, 1993.
- Locale
- Poland
Krosno
Kraków (Poland)
Bydgoszcz (Poland)
Krosno (Województwo Podkarpackie, Poland)
- Cite As
- Lucy R. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2628). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Gorenstein, Gabriel, interviewer.
Tobin, Phyllis O. Ziman, interviewer.
