- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Rose S., who was born in Jaworzno, Poland. She recounts German invasion in 1939 when she was five; briefly fleeing with her family to Kraków; anti-Jewish measures; hiding with her family in a bunker during round-ups; fleeing to Sosnowiec; ghettoization in the Srodula section; her father arranging a hiding place for her with a Polish woman and placing her baby sister with another family; hiding in the bunker when the ghetto was liquidated in July 1943; her parents' deportation (she never saw them again); escaping with her aunt; their arrest; escaping with asistance from a Jewish policeman; hiding with her aunt, uncle, and younger sister; her sister's discovery and deportation in February 1944; moving with her aunt to Otmuchów, as non-Jews using false papers; their arrest, interrogation, and release after she demonstrated Catholic prayers; working with her aunt in a convent; hiding their cousins, who were escapees from a death march; and liberation by Soviet troops in Nysa in April 1945. Mrs. S. recounts living in orphanages in Kraków, Rabka, then Bielsko-Biała; antisemitic violence; moving with her aunt to Zeilsheim displaced persons camp; and emigrating to the United States.
- Author/Creator
- S., Rose.
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1993
- Interview Date
- November 9, 1993.
- Locale
- Poland
Jaworzno (Kraków, Poland)
Kraków (Poland)
Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie, Poland)
Otmuchów (Poland)
Nysa (Poland)
Rabka (Województwo Małopolskie, Poland)
Bielsko-Biała (Poland)
Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie)
- Cite As
- Rose S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2694). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Schiff, Gabriele, interviewer.
- Notes
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Associated material: Sara W. Holocaust testimony [aunt] (HVT-2955), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Associated material: Sam K. Holocaust testimony [uncle] (HVT-2933), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
