Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Gunia P., who was born in Hrubieszów, Poland in 1915. She recalls German invasion; ghettoization; receiving food from a Polish friend; her four year old child's murder by the Germans; incarceration with her mother in Budzyń; receiving bread from her husband; their transfer to Majdanek; slave labor sorting clothing; assistance from her husband during a forced march to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her husband upon arrival; receiving medicine from a Polish woman and extra bread from her mother when she was ill; having blood drawn involuntarily; transport to Bergen-Belsen, then Theresienstadt; witnessing cannibalism; and liberation by the Soviet troops. Mrs. P. remembers learning her brother had been killed; traveling to Frankfurt; reunion with her husband; living at Zeilsheim displaced persons camp; emigrating to the United States with assistance from HIAS and the Joint; being told no one wanted to hear about survivor experiences; nightmares about piles of corpses in Bergen-Belsen; and testifying at a war crime trial in Hannover. She shows photographs.
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library, 1997
- Interview Date
- June 19, 1997.
- Locale
- Poland
Hrubieszów
Germany
Hannover
Hrubieszów (Poland)
Frankfurt am Main (Germany) - Cite As
- Gunia P. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3631). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 3 copies: Betacam SP master; 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 44 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Aid by non-Jews.
Mutual aid.
Postwar experiences.
Postwar effects. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Hrubieszów. Children--Death. Forced labor. Husband and wife. Mothers and daughters. Cannibalism. Nightmares. Refugee camps. War crime trials--Germany--Hannover. Poland. Hrubieszów (Poland) Frankfurt am Main (Germany) Oral histories (document genres) P., Gunia,--1915- Budzyn (Concentration camp) Majdanek (Concentration camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp) Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) Zeilsheim (Displaced persons camp) HIAS (Agency) American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
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/4291952
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:31:00
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