- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Leah G., who was born in Kraków, Poland in 1935, an only child. She recounts her family's affluence; a happy childhood; German invasion; joining relatives in Działoszyce; returning to Kraków; living in Koszyce; her father hiding her with non-Jews; visiting her parents; Poles threatening to expose her; being moved; her mother joining her in 1943 (her father had been arrested and did not survive); a failed smuggling attempt to Slovakia; returning to Kraków; entering Slovakia; living in Kežmarok as non-Jews; her mother's employment by a policeman; comfort from attending church; liberation by Soviet troops; attending a Jewish camp; moving to Prague, then to Aix-les-Bains in 1946; her mother's employment in a Jewish orphanage; her remarriage; becoming ill; her mother sending her to Switzerland to recover; returning to her family; her half-sister's birth in 1948; moving to England in 1952; rejoining her family in Nice; returning to England; marriage to a survivor; the births of three children; and attending art school. Ms. G. discusses her mother's depression after the war; acting as a mother to her half-sister (they remain close); becoming a Zionist and traditional Jew; sharing her experiences with her children; meeting a German who expressed antisemitic sentiment, knowing she was Jewish; and feeling a bond with others she met at a child survivor conference in California.
- Author/Creator
- G., Leah, 1935-
- Published
- London, England : British Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1991
- Interview Date
- February 1, 1991.
- Locale
- Poland
Kraków (Poland)
Działoszyce (Poland)
Koszyce (Województwo Małopolskie, Poland)
Kežmarok (Slovakia)
Prague (Czech Republic)
Aix-les-Bains (France)
Switzerland
Nice (France)
- Cite As
- Leah G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2492). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Perry, Elliot, interviewer.
