- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Ester B., who was born in Tulʹchyn, Ukraine in 1929. She remembers moving to a Jewish agricultural colony when her father was falsely accused of factory ownership; returning two years later to avoid starvation; moving to another village; returning to Tulʹchyn in 1937; German invasion in 1941; fleeing to a village; capture by German troops; returning to Tulʹchyn; ghettoization; transfer with her family and relatives to Peciora; she and her sister contracting typhus; surviving a mass killing; smuggling food; her parents and relatives dying of starvation; a severe beating for leaving camp; escaping with her sisters and nephew; help from local peasants; traveling to Sharhorod and Kopaygorod; their arrest; imprisonment in Luchinets; release; returning to Peciora; escaping with a woman who paid them for their assistance; staying at a synagogue in Dzhurin, then in an orphanage (her sisters remained in the synagogue); liberation; and returning to Tulʹchyn. Mrs. B. discusses her sisters' and nephew's lives; the importance of wanting to relate their experiences to their survival; the unbearable conditions in Peciora; and commemorating those murdered there.
- Author/Creator
- B., Ester, 1929-
- Published
- Tulʹchyn, Ukraine : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1994
- Interview Date
- August 13, 1994.
- Locale
- Ukraine
Tulʹchyn
Tulʹchyn (Ukraine)
Sharhorod (Ukraine)
Kopaĭhorod (Ukraine)
Luchinets (Ukraine)
Dz︠h︡uryn (Vinnyt︠s︡ʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine)
- Cite As
- Ester B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3298). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Zabarko, B. M., interviewer.
Vinocurova, Faina, interviewer.
- Notes
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Associated material: Mikhail B. Holocaust Testimony [husband] (HVT-3297). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Associated material: Reiza R. Holocaust testimony [sister] (HVT-3300). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
This testimony is in Russian.
