- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Adela S., who was born in Jarosław, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Poland) in 1912, one of nine children. She recounts her family's orthodoxy and relative affluence; attending school; working as a seamstress; marriage in 1931; living with her in-laws in Łańcut; returning to Jarosław; the births of three children; her very happy life; German invasion; her husband's flight to the Soviet Union; joining him with their children (she never saw her parents again); their transport to Siberia; her husband's forced labor chopping wood and hers in a bathhouse; her daughter's birth in 1941; starvation; the deaths of two children and her husband; transfer to a farm in the Ukraine; traveling to Wrocław after the war; working for UNRRA; learning of the Holocaust and that her family had been killed; one daughter's emigration to Israel; living in Schwarzenborn, then Kassel displaced persons camp; remarriage to a survivor; emigration to the United States in 1952; her daughter's suicide; her second husband's death; and visiting her daughter in Israel in 1974. Ms. S. discusses her anger with the Germans, and her husband's chronic depression resulting from his experiences.
- Author/Creator
- C., Adela, 1912-
- Published
- Dallas, Tex. : Memorial Center for Holocaust Studies, 1986
- Interview Date
- March 15, 1986.
- Locale
- Soviet Union
Russia
Jarosław (Poland)
Łańcut (Poland)
Siberia (Russia)
Wrocław (Poland)
- Cite As
- Adela C. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-747). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Berger, Bobbie, interviewer.
Pennebaker, James W., interviewer.
