Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Cipa R., who was born in Nizhneye Krivche, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Ukraine) in 1901. She recalls her family's affluence; their impoverishment after Soviet occupation; German invasion; forced relocation to Mel'nytsya-Podil's'ka; ghettoization in Borschiv; hiding in a bunker with twenty-two people, including her husband, their two children, and other relatives; collapse of the bunker roof resulting in the deaths of fifteen; local Poles hiding her family, a niece, and two cousins; liberation by Soviet troops; living in Borshchiv; assistance from Poles; antisemitic harassment and violence by Ukrainians; moving to Bytom; illegally traveling to Germany; living in Zigenhain displaced persons camp, then in Berlin, and for four years in Kassel; obtaining papers to emigrate to the United States in Butzbach; moving to Bremen; emigration to the United States; and assistance from HIAS.
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1990
- Interview Date
- November 12, 1990.
- Locale
- Ukraine
Borshchiv (Ternopil's'ka oblast')
Austria
Nizhneye Krivche (Ukraine)
Mel'nytsya-Podil's'ka (Ternopil's'ka oblast', Ukraine)
Bytom (Poland)
Berlin (Germany)
Kassel (Germany)
Butzbach (Germany)
Bremen (Germany) - Cite As
- Cipa R. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1708). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 3 copies: 3/4 in. submaster; Betacam SP restoration master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 37 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Soviet occupation.
Hiding.
Bunkers.
Aid by non-Jews.
Postwar experiences.
Antisemitism Postwar. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Husband and wife. Mothers and daughters. Mothers and sons. Families. Refugee camps. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Ukraine--Borshchiv (Ternopil's'ka oblast') Austria. Nizhneye Krivche (Ukraine) Mel'nytsya-Podil's'ka (Ternopil's'ka oblast', Ukraine) Bytom (Poland) Berlin (Germany) Kassel (Germany) Butzbach (Germany) Bremen (Germany) Oral histories (document genres) R., Cipa. HIAS (Agency)
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/4295969
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-30 11:33:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4295969
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