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Frieda P. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2943) interviewed by Gabriel Gorenstein and Bonnie Dwork,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2943

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Frieda P., who was born in Katowice, Poland in 1919. She recounts her father's early death; moving with her family to Sędziszów, then Sosnowiec; antisemitic harassment by other children; German occupation; anti-Jewish measures; arranging a job for her mother with assistance from a German woman; her mother's deportation (she never saw her again); transfer to Mysłowice (Fürstengrube), then Gräditz; public hangings; assistance from a German soldier; sharing food with her fellow prisoners; slave labor in an ammunition factory; transfer to Langenbielau; forced labor at looms; liberation by Soviet troops in May 1945; living in Reichenbach; marriage in Munich; emigration in 1949 to the United States; and her daughter's birth in 1952. Mrs. P. notes permanent damage from the war years as well as several miscarriages.
Author/Creator: P., Frieda, 1919-
Published: New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1993
Interview Date: November 8, 1993.
Locale: Poland
Katowice (Poland)
Sędziszów (Poland)
Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie, Poland)
Dzierżoniów (Poland)
Munich (Germany)
Cite As: Frieda P. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2943). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Gorenstein, Gabriel, interviewer.
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., 55 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Antisemitism Prewar.
Mutual aid.
Postwar effects.
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. Forced labor. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Poland. Katowice (Poland) Sędziszów (Poland) Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie, Poland) Dzierżoniów (Poland) Munich (Germany) Oral histories (document genres) P., Frieda,--1919- Myslowice (Concentration camp) Langenbielau (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/4289345
Record last modified:: 2018-05-29 11:58:00
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