- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Esther F., who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1923. She describes a happy childhood in a family of seven children; Soviet occupation; German invasion; a futile attempt to flee; separation from her mother and sisters during a selection; learning of their murders in a mass killing from her brother, who escaped from the mass grave; transfer to a labor camp with her father and brothers; her fiancé joining her; sharing extra food with fellow prisoners; requesting her father's transfer to the ghetto hospital when he was ill; transfer to Stutthof; separation from her father, brothers, and fiancé; escaping with a friend from a death march; receiving food, clothing, and advice from a German priest; working while posing as German refugees; liberation by Soviet troops; working as a hospital nurse; joining a group of Jewish refugees in Breslau; traveling to Łódź; reunion with her fiancé in Wels displaced persons camp; learning her father had been killed; marriage; living in Munich; her son's birth in June 1947; reunion with her sister; and emigration to the United States in 1949.
- Author/Creator
- F., Esther, 1923-
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1996
- Interview Date
- June 17, 1996.
- Locale
- Lithuania
Kaunas
Kaunas (Lithuania)
Wrocław (Poland)
Łódź (Poland)
Munich (Germany)
- Cite As
- Esther F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3383). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Herz, Sara Moss, interviewer.
Ritvo, Lucille B.,
- Notes
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Associated material: Abraham F. Holocaust testimony [husband] (HVT-3382), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
A videotape with related material is available in the repository.
