- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Lee W., who was born in Chrzanów, Poland in 1925. She recalls celebrating holidays with a large, extended family; German invasion in September 1939; ceasing school; forced labor; ghettoization; obtaining food from her father's non-Jewish friends; assisting her parents to escape from a deportation round-up; her parents hiding with non-Jews; deportation with her brother to Markstädt, then Klettendorf; receiving extra food from a supervisor; sending socks and gloves to her brother; transfer in July 1944 to Ludwigsdorf; slave labor in a munitions factory; smuggling bread with her friend for her barrack; liberation by Soviet troops in May 1945; meeting her future husband; traveling to Chrzanów, seeking relatives; learning her parents and brother were killed; finding an uncle; return of family possessions by the people who had hidden her parents; selling them to obtain food and medicine for her uncle; marriage; emigration to the United States in 1949; the births of two sons; raising them as traditional Jews; and sharing her story with them when they were old enough.
- Author/Creator
- W., Lee, 1925-
- Published
- Union, N.J. : Kean College Oral Testimonies Project, 1987
- Interview Date
- October 28, 1987.
- Locale
- Poland
Chrzanów
Chrzanów (Poland)
- Cite As
- Leo W. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1176). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Weinstein, Bernard, interviewer.
