- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Dvora F., who was born in Bełżyce, Poland in 1932, the third of four children. She recounts celebrating Jewish holidays with her extended family; her brother's birth in 1937; attending a Jewish school; German invasion; her father being taken for occasional forced labor; non-Jews hiding her, her mother, brother, and one sister underground, then in an apartment; ghettoization with all her family; sneaking into her parents group during a selection; deportation to Kraśnik, then Budzyń; her father remaining in Kraśnik; she and her brother hiding when her family worked; transfer to Majdanek in June; cleaning a German's office for extra food; a death march to Kraśnik; separation from her brother; briefly seeing her father; train transfer to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her family; living in a children's block; her mother and sisters being transferred; her cousin joining her; a death march and train transfer to the tent camp at Ravensbrück; transfer to Malchow; abandonment by the guards on an evacuation march; liberation by Soviet troops; placement with her cousin in a refugee camp; traveling to Łódź, then Lublin seeking relatives; living in a girls' orphanage; finding her brother in a boys' orphanage; reunion with her mother and sisters; learning her father had not survived; antisemitic violence; moving with her family to Lampertheim displaced persons (DP) camp; attending high school in the Bergen-Belsen DP camp; emigration to Palestine in April 1948; and marriage. Ms. F. discusses witnessing many killings; fear of being without family in the camps; relief when her cousin joined her after separation from her mother and sisters; and sharing her experiences with her children and grandchildren.
- Author/Creator
- F., Dvora, 1932-
- Published
- Tel Aviv, Israel : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1996
- Interview Date
- October 18, 1996.
- Locale
- Poland
Bełżyce
Bełżyce (Poland)
Łódź (Poland)
Lublin (Poland)
Palestine
- Cite As
- Dvora F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3846). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
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This testimony is in Hebrew.
Related material: Jafa R. Holocaust testimony [sister](HVT-3878), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
