Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Alli I., who was born in Russia and raised in Memel (presently Klaipėda). She recalls many German friends prior to 1938; a German warning them to leave; moving to Kaunas; Soviet occupation; German invasion; briefly fleeing east with her two sisters, brother, father, and niece; returning home; ghettoization; mass killings at the Ninth Fort; hiding during round-ups; forced labor in a laundry; smuggling food; marriage; a round-up when they were found; deportation to Stutthof; separation from her mother and sister (they did not survive); feeling "dead"; slave labor in two camps; a death march; liberation by Soviet troops in April 1944; transfer to Ciechocinek; traveling to Vilnius, then Kaunas; learning her other sister and child in hiding were killed; and reunion with her father, brother, and husband in Munich. Ms. I. discusses loosing all feelings in camps (she never cried then, nor now); painful memories, particularly of her nephew and parting from her mother; not sharing her experiences, even with her children; her over-protective parenting; and attending survivor gatherings in Washington and Philadelphia.
- Published
- Dallas, Tex. : Memorial Center for Holocaust Studies, 1985
- Interview Date
- December 15, 1985.
- Locale
- Lithuania
Kaunas
Klaipėda (Lithuania)
Kaunas (Lithuania)
Russia
Ciechocinek (Poland)
Vilnius (Lithuania)
Munich (Germany) - Cite As
- Alli I. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-720). 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., 52 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Soviet occupation.
Mass killings.
Hiding.
Marriage in Jewish ghettos.
Postwar effects.
Postwar experiences.
Survivor-child relations. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jews--Lithuania--Kaunas. Jewish ghettos. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Forced labor. Mothers and daughters. Sisters. Concentration camps--Psychological aspects. Death marches. Klaipėda (Lithuania) Kaunas (Lithuania) Russia. Ciechocinek (Poland) Vilnius (Lithuania) Munich (Germany) Oral histories (document genres) I., Alli. Stutthof (Concentration camp)
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/4294133
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-29 11:47:00
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