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Hana G. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1722) interviewed by Kathy Strochlic and Helen W. Silverman,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1722

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Hana G., an only child, who was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1926. She recounts German occupation; receiving extra food from non-Jewish friends; eviction from their apartment; deportation to Theresienstadt in December 1943; public hangings; her mother sharing extra food with her and her father; their deportation to Auschwitz in December 1943; remaining with her mother (she never saw her father again); briefly working in a children's barrack; deportation to Stutthof in July 1944; twice being in the infirmary; a death march in January 1945; escaping with her mother; hiding until the Soviets arrived; returning home; hospitalization; marriage to another survivor in 1948; having children despite her continuing weakness; and emigration to the United States via Paris in 1966. Mrs. G. notes photographs are all she has of her father; "feeling she lived in a cemetery" after the war; and her belief that she survived because of coincidences.
Author/Creator: G., Hana, 1926-
Published: New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1990
Interview Date: November 13, 1990.
Locale: Prague (Czech Republic)
Czechoslovakia
Paris (France)
Cite As: Hana G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1722). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Strochlic, Kathy, interviewer.
Silverman, Helen W., 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): Child survivors.
Antisemitism Prewar.
Aid by non-Jews.
Hospitals in concentration camps.
Postwar experiences.
Postwar effects.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Mothers and daughters. Fathers and daughters. Forced labor. Death marches. Escapes. Prague (Czech Republic) Czechoslovakia. Paris (France) Oral histories (document genres) G., Hana,--1926- Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Stutthof (Concentration camp)

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/4296005
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:25:00
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