Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Sarah F., who was born in Jarosław, Poland in 1923. She recalls being raised in Kraków; pervasive antisemitism; German occupation in September 1939; ghettoization; food distribution by the Judenrat; her mother's death; her father's and siblings' deportation (she never saw them again); one of her brothers escaping from the train; transfer to Płaszów; slave labor at an ammunition factory; assistance from a Pole; smuggling bullets to the camp underground; public hangings; cleaning Kommandant Amon Goeth's house; transport to Pionki, Auschwitz, and Gleiwitz; assistance from a German guard; transport to Nordhausen in December 1944; a death march to Bergen-Belsen; and liberation by British troops in April 1945. Mrs. F. describes learning in Nordermoor that none of her family had survived; joining her girlfriend in Landsberg displaced persons camp in December 1945; marriage in 1948; her son's birth; and emigration to the United States in 1949. She discusses the importance of friendship to her survival and help from HIAS and the Joint.
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1994
- Interview Date
- June 23, 1994.
- Locale
- Poland
Kraków
Jarosław (Poland)
Kraków (Poland)
Nordermoor (Germany) - Cite As
- Sarah F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2906). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 46 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Antisemitism Prewar.
Concentration camps Underground movements.
Aid by non-Jews.
Postwar experiences. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Kraków. Jewish councils. Forced labor. Friendship. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Death marches. Poland. Jarosław (Poland) Kraków (Poland) Oral histories (document genres) Nordermoor (Germany) Refugee camps. F., Sarah,--1923- Göth, Amon,--1908-1946. Pionki (Concentration camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) Landsberg am Lech (Displaced persons camp) HIAS (Agency) American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Płaszów (Concentration camp) Nordhausen (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
-
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4289236
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-30 11:44:00
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