- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Sara W., who was born in Będzin, Poland in 1929. She recalls her family's affluence; attending private school; many close relatives; antisemitism beginning in the late 1930s; German invasion in 1939; moving to the ghetto; separation from her family (she never saw her father or sister again); slave labor at camps, including Gross-Rosen, under brutal conditions; often being the youngest; assistance from older prisoners; conversations about the war ending; liberation from a death march by Soviet troops; traveling to Prague, then Katowice; Red Cross assistance; reunion with her mother; her mother's marriage to her father's friend; preparing for illegal emigration to Palestine in Genoa; meeting her future husband; living on a kibbutz; her daughter's birth; and returning to Germany for health reasons. Ms. W. discusses continuing fears and anger resulting from her experiences; pervasive memories; not discussing her experience with her mother, although sharing it with her daughter; close relations with friends from concentration camp; and believing movies cannot portray, nor others imagine, concentration camp life. She shows photographs.
- Author/Creator
- W., Sara, 1929-
- Published
- Potsdam, Germany : Moses Mendelsohn Zentrum für europäisch-jüdische Studien, Universität Potsdam, 1996
- Interview Date
- May 7, 1996.
- Locale
- Poland
Będzin
Będzin (Poland)
Prague (Czech Republic)
Katowice (Poland)
Genoa (Italy)
Palestine
- Cite As
- Sara W. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3721). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Bräuer, Stefanie, interviewer.
Preisler, Maximilian, interviewer.
- Notes
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This testimony is in German.
