- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Hilda G., who was born in Kutuzovo, Germany (presently Russia) and raised in Memel (presently Klaipėda). She recalls her father's early death; her brother's emigration to Palestine in 1939; German invasion; fleeing to relatives in Kaunas; German invasion; ghettoization; forced labor with her sister at the airport; exchanging possessions with peasants for food; an older Wehrmacht soldier providing them with easier work and extra food; transfer with her mother and sister to Stutthof; transfer to a slave labor camp; separation from her sister (she never saw her again); her mother freezing to death on a death march; encountering a cousin; liberation by Soviet troops; a long hospital recuperation; communication from her brother through the Red Cross; traveling to Łódź, then Munich; reunion with an uncle; and emigration to the United States two years later. Ms. G. discusses nightmares resulting from her experiences; reluctance to share her experiences with her daughter, then doing so through her testimony; visiting her uncle in Germany; and thirty-five close family members who were killed in the Holocaust. She shows photographs.
- Author/Creator
- G., Hilda.
- Published
- Dallas, Tex. : Memorial Center for Holocaust Studies, 1986 and 1987
- Interview Date
- February 9, 1986 and September 19, 1987.
- Locale
- Lithuania
Kaunas
Kutuzovo (Krasnoznamenskiĭ raĭon, Russia)
Klaipėda (Lithuania)
Kaunas (Lithuania)
Łódź (Poland)
Czechoslovakia
Munich (Germany)
Germany
- Cite As
- Hilda G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1367). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Gadol, Ann, interviewer.
Weinberg, Debbie, interviewer.
McFadden, Debbie, interviewer.
Mendel, Sarah, interviewer.
