- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Hannah H., who was born in Sosnowiec, Poland in 1924. She recalls attending public school and business school; celebrating Jewish holidays; German invasion; ghettoization with her family in the Srodula section; forced labor; hiding in a bunker during round-ups; her brother being caught and killed; foregoing an escape opportunity to save her parents from deportation (they were not released); deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; being shaved and tattooed; slave labor in a munitions factory; transfer to a German camp in January 1945; liberation by the Red Cross in April; transfer to Visingsö, Sweden; working in Nässjö, then Norrköping; marriage in Stockholm; her daughter's birth; emigration to the United States in 1952 with assistance from an uncle; her second daughter's birth; and her husband's death in 1979. She discusses her enjoyment in life; the kindness of the Swedes; and not sharing her experience after seeing how it upset her Swedish hosts. She shows photographs and documents.
- Author/Creator
- H., Hannah, 1924-
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1990
- Interview Date
- April 23, 1990.
- Locale
- Poland
Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie)
Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie, Poland)
Visingsö (Sweden)
Nässjö (Sweden)
Norrköping (Sweden)
Stockholm (Sweden)
- Cite As
- Hannah H. Holocaust Testimony (HV-1571). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Blum-Dobkin, Toby, interviewer.
Alpert, Michael, interviewer.