- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Grunia M., who was born in Lysyanka, Ukraine in 1924. She recalls moving to Zvenigorodka with her family; attending Ukrainian school; German occupation; forced labor; torture and mass shooting of Jewish men; forced labor in a German hospital; transfer to a labor camp with her mother and two sisters; public executions; quarry work; escaping to Popivka with her younger sister with assistance from non-Jews; leaving her sister with a non-Jewish friend in Petrivka; obtaining false papers; fleeing to Tarashcha; imprisonment; release due to a non-Jewish friend vouching for her; liberation by Soviet troops in Lysyanka; reunion with her mother and sisters; marriage in 1950; and her daughters' births. Mrs. M. discusses her father's murder shortly before liberation; experiences with partisans; her children's lack of interest in her experiences; and nightmares of German shootings.
- Author/Creator
- M., Grunia, 1924-
- Published
- Zvenigorodka, Ukraine : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1994
- Interview Date
- August 6, 1994.
- Locale
- Ukraine
Lysi︠a︡nka (Ukraine)
Zvenyhorodka (Cherkasʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine)
Petrivka (Ukraine)
Tarashcha (Ukraine)
Popivka (Ukraine)
- Cite As
- Grunia M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3281). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Zabarko, B. M., interviewer.
Turman, Bela, interviewer.
- Notes
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This testimony is in Russian with some Ukrainian.
Associated material: Elizaveta K. Holocaust testimony [sister] (HVT-3282), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
