- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Sophia R., who was born in Lʹviv, Ukraine in 1941. She recounts her father's incarceration in Janowska; her mother obtaining false papers from non-Jewish friends; living as non-Jews in Zimna Voda; her father's escape and her mother hiding him in their attic without her knowledge; his emergence and being told not to reveal his presence; her sister's birth; liberation by Soviet troops; returning to L'viv; his sister's death from whooping cough at about a year old; living in Paris for five years; learning she was Jewish; emigration to the United States; and surprise at meeting nice Jewish people. Ms. R. discusses her mother's reluctance to discuss their experiences; living with denial and secrets; beginning to come to terms with her experiences after her father published a book and her marriage to a loving man; the birth of her daughter and anxiety when she was thirteen months old, the age when her sister died; recurring nightmares; the pleasure her daughter brought her father and brings to her; and discussing her experiences with her daughter. She shows photographs.
- Author/Creator
- R., Sophia, 1941-
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1990
- Interview Date
- May 20, 1990.
- Locale
- Paris (France)
Zymna Voda (Ukraine)
Lʹviv (Ukraine)
Ukraine
- Cite As
- Sophia R. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1578). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Tobin, Phyllis O. Ziman, interviewer.
- Notes
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Related publication: Why? : Extermination Camp Lwów (Lemberg), 134 Janowska Street, Poland : a documentary / by an inmate, Leon Richman. -- 1st ed. -- New York : Vantage Press,c1975.
Associated material: Dorothy R. Holocaust testimony [mother] (HVT-291), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
