Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Eleanor O., who was born in Janów, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Ivano-Frankovo, Ukraine) in 1916, one of three daughters. She recounts the family move to Lʹviv when she was five; attending public school; completing art school in 1939; Soviet occupation; marriage in 1940; German invasion; ghettoization; forced factory labor; her mother's deportation in November 1941; hiding her father with a non-Jew (he was discovered and killed); obtaining false papers as a non-Jew; traveling by herself to Warsaw in 1943; reunion with her sister; the Warsaw Uprising; hiding briefly with underground members, then escaping to Krzeszowice; she and her sister living with a Polish family; liberation by Soviet troops; traveling to Kraków; reunion with her husband and other sister; moving to Łódź; emigrating to the United States; and her husband's death in 1967. Ms. O. discusses her constant fear while hiding, and attributes her survival to the many non-Jews who helped her.
- Published
- Mahwah, N.J. : Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 1994
- Interview Date
- April 27, 1994.
- Locale
- Ukraine
Lʹviv
Poland
Austria
Ivano-Frankove (Ukraine)
Lʹviv (Ukraine)
Warsaw (Poland)
Krzeszowice (Poland)
Kraków (Poland)
Łódź (Poland) - Cite As
- Eleanor O. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2732). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 4 copies: 3/4 in. dub; Betacam SP restoration master; Betacam SP restoration submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 14 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Soviet occupation.
Aid by non-Jews.
False papers.
Hiding.
Postwar experiences. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Ukraine--Lʹviv. Forced labor. Sisters. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Poland. World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Poland. Austria. Ivano-Frankove (Ukraine) Lʹviv (Ukraine) Warsaw (Poland) Warsaw (Poland)--History--Uprising, 1944. Krzeszowice (Poland) Kraków (Poland) Łódź (Poland) Oral histories (document genres) O., Eleanor,--1916-
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/4296961
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-29 11:47:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4296961
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