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Ada A. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1546) interviewed by Patricia Widenhorn and Bernard Weinstein,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1546

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Ada A., who grew up in Kraków, Poland. She recounts cordial relations with non-Jews; membership in a Zionist youth group; German invasion; her father fleeing east; learning he was killed; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization with her mother and grandmother in March 1941; her grandmother's death; slave labor in a munitions factory; transfer with her mother to Płaszów in March 1943; separation from her mother (she never saw her again); transfer to Auschwitz/Birkenau; assisting a friend; transfer to Lichtewerden; slave labor in a textile factory; liberation by Soviet troops; assistance from Czechs en route home; moving to Linz displaced persons camp; working for UNRRA; marriage to a survivor; living in Munich for nine months, waiting for their United States quota; and emigration to the United States in 1948. Ms. A. notes sharing her experiences with her children; and reads from a translation of a diary that she wrote in camps.
Author/Creator: A., Ada, 1921-
Published: Union, N.J. : Kean College Oral Testimonies Project, 1989
Interview Date: February 10, 1989.
Locale: Poland
Kraków
Kraków (Poland)
Munich (Germany)
Cite As: Ada A. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1546). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Weinstein, Bernard, interviewer.
Widenhorn, Patricia, interviewer.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (1 hr., 52 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Mutual aid.
Postwar experiences.
Survivor-child relations.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Kraków. Forced labor. Mothers and daughters. Refugee camps. Poland. Kraków (Poland) Munich (Germany) Oral histories (document genres) A., Ada,--1921- Płaszów (Concentration camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp) Lichtewerden (Concentration camp) United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
Special Collection: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

Link to Yale University Library Catalog:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4295410
Record last modified:: 2018-05-30 11:44:00
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