- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Frances G., who was born in Tarnopol, Poland in 1919, one of seven sisters. She recalls her comfortable childhood in an observant and very close family; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in June 1941; pogroms by Poles and Ukrainians; forced labor; ghettoization; frequent round-ups and killings, including her youngest sister; working in a laundry; friendship with a Polish woman, Irene Opdyke, who worked for a German major; smuggling food into the ghetto with assistance from Ms. Opdyke; sharing warnings from Ms. Opdyke of round-ups; killings of her sisters and their families; transfer to a labor camp; an unsuccessful attempt to warn her parents of the ghetto's liquidation; escaping with assistance from Ms. Opdyke; hiding with twelve other Jews in the German villa where Ms. Opdyke worked as a housekeeper; escaping to the forest, posing as a non-Jew; liberation; living in Zbaraz︠h︡, then Kraków; fleeing to Vienna after a pogrom in 1945; marriage; her husband's and son's deaths from natural causes; emigrating to the United States in 1951; and remarriage. Mrs. G. discusses her reunion with Ms. Opdyke; Ms. Opdyke's book; and sharing her experiences with her son.
- Author/Creator
- G., Frances, 1919-
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1993
- Interview Date
- November 7, 1993.
- Locale
- Ukraine
Ternopilʹ
Poland
Ternopilʹ (Ukraine)
Zbaraz︠h︡ (Ukraine)
Kraków (Poland)
Vienna (Austria)
- Cite As
- Frances G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2910). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Tobin, Phyllis O. Ziman, interviewer.
Stimmel, Barbara, interviewer.
- Notes
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Related publication: Into the flames : the life story of a righteous gentile / Irene Gut Opdyke with Jeffrey M. Elliot ; edited by Mary A. Burgess. -- San Bernardino, Calif. : Borgo Press, c1992.
