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Sarah F. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2906) interviewed by Bonnie Dwork,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2906

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    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.
    Author/Creator
    F., Sarah, 1923-
    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.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Dwork, Bonnie, interviewer.

    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.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4289236
    Record last modified:
    2018-05-30 11:44:00
    This page:
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