- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Rosalie S., who was born in Kraków, Poland in 1922, the oldest of three children. Ms. S. recounts her family's orthodoxy; German invasion; her father fleeing east (he did not return); briefly moving to a nearby town; ghettoization in Kraków; deportation of her family (she never saw them again); marriage; daily forced labor; hiding her grandmother (she was discovered and deported); frequent murders of Jews; her husband's transfer to Płaszów; her deportation to Skarżysko-Kamienna; slave labor in a munitions factory; public hanging of a friend who had helped her; a brutal beating; praying to be shot; helping a woman give birth (they disposed of the baby in the latrine); transfer to Częstochowa; helping a friend avoid selection; liberation by Soviet troops; hospitalization; returning to Kraków; her husband's return six months later; living in a displaced persons camp in Austria; assistance from UNRRA; her son's birth; emigration to the United States in 1949; and the births of two more children. Ms. S. discusses nightmares and being overprotective of her children due to her experiences; wanting to forget much of what happened to her; attending a survivor gathering with her daughter; and an emotional trip to Kraków with her husband and sons.
- Author/Creator
- S., Rosalie, 1922-
- Published
- Dallas, Tex. : Memorial Center for Holocaust Studies, 1985
- Interview Date
- November 9, 1985.
- Locale
- Poland
Kraków
Kraków (Poland)
Austria
- Cite As
- Rosalie S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-737). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Pennebaker, James W., interviewer.
Berger, Bobbie, interviewer.
- Notes
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Related material: Rosalie S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1612), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
