- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Amalie S., who was born in Munich, Germany in 1922, one of three daughters. She recounts her family moving to Stanislav after Hitler's ascent to power; attending a Jewish gymnasium; summer visits to grandparents in Dilyatyn; her sister's emigration to Palestine; Soviet occupation; Hungarian invasion followed by German invasion in June 1941; anti-Jewish restrictions; her father's arrest and release; hiding her father during a round-up; a mass killing including her mother and sister; ghettoization; forced labor; her father's job at the Judenrat; public hanging of every tenth Jewish policeman and the head of the Judenrat, Mordecai Goldstein; her father's deportation; escaping to Galich with the help of a non-Jew; hiding with several non-Jewish families; obtaining false papers; living in Lʹviv; traveling to Kraków via Stryĭ; living with Kazimiera J.; working as a maid for a German family, then for a German construction company; attending a party hosted by Hans Frank; attempting to give water to Jews in cattle cars; working as a bookkeeper for Organization Todt, then another German firm; remaining as a manager when the company was evacuated; a German commander ordering her to detonate explosives but not complying; contacting the Polish underground; liberation; meeting her future husband (he was in the Polish army); and emigration to the United States in 1947. Ms. S. notes visiting Poland with her daughter in 1974; sending money to one of her rescuers; and bringing Kazimiera J. to the United States, who joins her, as does Amalie S.'s husband, Norman S. (HVT-1055), and one of his rescuers, Stanislawa B.
- Author/Creator
- S., Amalie, 1922-
- Published
- Union, N.J. : Kean College Oral Testimonies Project, 1987
- Interview Date
- April 24, 1987 and October 27, 1987.
- Locale
- Ukraine
Stanislav
Poland
Germany
Munich (Germany)
Stanislav (Ukraine)
Deli︠a︡tyn (Ukraine)
Galich (Ukraine)
Lʹviv (Ukraine)
Stryĭ (Ukraine)
Kraków (Poland)
- Cite As
- Amalie S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1178). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Weinstein, Bernard, interviewer.
- Notes
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Related publication: Against all odds : a tale of two survivors / Norman Salsitz and Amalie Petranker Salsitz. -- New York : Holocaust Library, c1990.
Related material: Norman S. Holocaust testimony [husband](HVT-1055), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.