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Pearl G. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1049) interviewed by Bernard Weinstein,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1049

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Pearl G., who was born in Okrouhlička, Czechoslovakia in 1924, one of seven children. She recalls her father's death in 1934; her oldest brother helping support them; their orthodoxy; Hungarian occupation; two brothers and her brother-in-law being drafted for slave labor (they never saw them again); expulsion from school; confiscation of their business; refusing to hide with her mother's non-Jewish friend, not wanting to leave her family; their deportation to the Ti︠a︡chiv ghetto; deportation four weeks later to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her mother, sister-in-law, and the children; remaining with her sister; encountering cousins from Romania; transfer with her sister and cousins to Unterlüss; slave labor in a munitions factory and construction; her cousins sharing extra food with them; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; corpses all over; liberation; hospitalization; her sister's death; transfer to Malmö, Sweden; two months in a hospital, six months in a sanitarium, and a year in a convalescent home; living with her cousins in Stockholm; learning in 1947 that two sisters and a brother had survived; emigrating in 1949 to join an uncle in the United States; visiting her siblings in Israel in 1955; marriage; and her son's birth in 1959. Ms. G. discusses continuing nightmares and sharing her story with her son when he was older.
    Author/Creator
    G., Pearl, 1925-
    Published
    Union, N.J. : Kean College Oral Testimonies Project, 1987
    Interview Date
    September 17, 1987.
    Locale
    Ukraine
    Ti︠a︡chiv
    Okrouhlička (Czech Republic)
    Czechoslovakia
    Malmö (Sweden)
    Stockholm (Sweden)
    Cite As
    Pearl G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1049). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Weinstein, Bernard, interviewer.

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Copies
    2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
    Physical Description
    1 videorecording (3 hr., 40 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Survivor-child relations.
    Postwar effects.
    Mutual aid.
    Hiding.
    Aid by non-Jews.
    Hungarian occupation.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4294671
    Record last modified:
    2018-06-04 13:31:00
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