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Tauba B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3021) interviewed by Sandy Hoffman and Steve Forst,

Oral History | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-3021

Videotape testimony of Tauba B., who was born in Zamość, Poland in 1918. She recalls German invasion; brief Soviet occupation; reversion to German authority; fleeing with her family to Hrubieszów, then Volodymyret︠s︡ʹ; Soviet authorities settling them in Dubno; marriage; her family's flight to Russia in 1940; her husband's draft into the Soviet military (she never saw him again); her daughter's birth; German invasion in 1941; ghettoization; her baby's death; being smuggled out by a Ukrainian (her husband's family perished in a mass killing); traveling to Ternopilʹ as a non-Jew; working for Germans (Poles and Ukrainians recognized her as a Jew); working for German troops; escaping when a Ukrainian recognized her as a Jew; assistance from a German; witnessing murders of Jews in Stryǐ; working in a German hospital in Morshin; fleeing with German forces through Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Austria; believing she was the only surviving Jew; living in Weisbaden; difficulty proving she was Jewish; traveling to Frankfurt, then a displaced persons; marriage; reunion with a sister; and emigration to the United States in 1948. Ms. B. discusses visiting her family in Ukraine in 1967; bringing them to the United States; depressions; hostility toward Poles and Ukrainians; and her bitterness. She shows photographs.

Author/Creator
B., Tauba, 1918-
Published
Milwaukee, Wis. : Generation After of Milwaukee, 1993
Interview Date
November 11, 1993.
Locale
Ukraine
Dubno
Poland
Zamość (Poland)
Hrubieszów (Poland)
Volodymyret︠s︡ʹ (Ukraine)
Dubno (Ukraine)
Ternopilʹ (Ukraine)
Stryĭ (Ukraine)
Morshyn (Ukraine)
Wiesbaden (Germany)
Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
Language
English
Copies
2 copies: 3/4 in. master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Cite As
Tauba B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3021). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
 
View in Yale University Library Catalog: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4290089
Record last modified: 2018-05-30 11:44:00
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