- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Esther I., who was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1920, shortly after her parents had emigrated from Poland. She recalls her father's death in 1928; moving to Kraków with her mother and sister to be near family; the warmth of Jewish holidays within a close and large, extended family; remaining with relatives for two years when her mother returned to the United States to retain her naturalized citizenship status; returning to the United States in 1936 due to her mother's fear of the German situation; maintaining contact with family in Poland until 1942; learning after the war that most of her relatives had perished; and reunion with two surviving aunts and a cousin in 1958. Mrs. I. discusses marriage to a Czech refugee who also left prior to the war and informing their children about family that had been killed. She shows photographs.
- Author/Creator
- I., Esther, 1920-
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1993
- Interview Date
- December 1, 1993.
- Locale
- United States
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Kraków (Poland)
- Cite As
- Esther I. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2707). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Rappaport, Naomi, interviewer.
