Pola G. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1944) interviewed by Gitta Fajerstein and Sondra Kraft,
Videotape testimony of Pola G., who was born in Stopnica, Poland in 1926, one of five children. She recalls their traditional shtetl life; German invasion in 1939; ghettoization; transport with her sister and sister-in-law to Skarżysko-Kamienna in 1942; slave labor in a munitions factory; smuggling food with help from civilian workers; their transfer to Częstochowa in 1944, then to Ravensbrück, Burgau, and Dachau; being wounded during liberation by United States troops; living in Feldafing displaced persons camp; marriage in 1945; moving to Brussels; her son's birth; emigration to Israel in January 1949; her other son's birth; and emigration to join her sister in the United States in 1959.
- Published
- Wilmette, Ill. : Holocaust Education Foundation, 1994
- Interview Date
- December 4, 1994.
- Locale
- Poland
Stopnica
Stopnica (Województwo Świętokrzyskie, Poland)
Brussels (Belgium)
Israel - Language
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English
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Cite As
- Pola G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1944). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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View in Yale University Library Catalog: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4296347
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