Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Sally P., who was born in approximately 1920 and raised in Płońsk, Poland. She recalls her large, extended family; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; her parents fleeing to Warsaw; selling their goods to support her brothers; her mother's return; ghettoization; public hangings; emotional devastation from observing her family's suffering, particularly hunger; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her family (she never saw them again); transfer to Budy, then back to Auschwitz/Birkenau; finding her friends; slave labor clearing bombing rubble and in a munitions factory; mud and rats leading to diseases; assignment to the hospital; observing Josef Mengele conducting "medical experiments"; sorting clothing of murdered Jews; the Sonderkommando uprising; a death march and train transport to Ravensbrück in January 1945; transfer to Malchow, then Torgau; liberation from a death march by United States troops in Grimma; hospitalization; finding two friends; transfer to Bayreuth displaced persons camp; thinking of suicide, upon realizing her entire family was killed; emigration to the United States; and a nervous breakdown due to her experiences. Ms. P. discusses her conviction that she would not survive the camps; wonder that she did; and pervasive, painful memories.
- Published
- Cleveland, Ohio : National Council of Jewish Women, Holocaust Archive Project, 1984
- Interview Date
- August 8, 1984.
- Locale
- Poland
Płońsk
Płońsk (Poland)
Grimma (Germany) - Cite As
- Sally P. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-334). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 46 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Antisemitism Prewar.
Hospitals in concentration camps.
Concentration camps Revolts.
Postwar effects.
Postwar experiences. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Płońsk. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Forced labor. Human experimentation in medicine. Concentration camps--Psychological aspects. Death marches. Refugee camps. Płońsk (Poland) Grimma (Germany) Oral histories (document genres) Mengele, Josef,--1911-1979. P., Sally,--1920?- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp) Ravensbrück (Concentration camp) Malchow (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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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/4293568
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:28:00
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