Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Sara P., who was born in Lublin, Poland in 1939. Much of what she recounts was told to her by her mother. She tells of German invasion; her father's and grandfather's arrest (they never returned); her mother escaping to the forest with her; living with a Polish woman for several months, then another family; entering Budzyń; staying with other children while her mother went to slave labor; their transfer to Majdanek; a public execution; a German officer giving her extra food; separation from her mother; truck transport; liberation by Soviet troops; being taken to a Red Cross station in Lublin; transfer to an orphanage; her mother locating her; assistance from the Joint and Red Cross; medical treatment in Heidelberg; living in Lampertheim refugee camp; traveling to Marseille; emigration to Israel in 1949; her mother's remarriage; and the birth of her sister. She discusses nightmares resulting from her experiences; her mother's continuing anguish, despite looking “normal”; not sharing her experiences with others; and conflict with her children over her excessive worrying due to her experiences. She shows photographs, and reads from her personal writings about the war.
- Published
- Tel Aviv, Israel : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1996
- Interview Date
- October 31, 1996.
- Locale
- Poland
Lublin (Poland)
Heidelberg (Germany)
Marseille (France) - Cite As
- Sara P. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3852). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
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This testimony is in Hebrew.
Physical Details
- Language
- Hebrew
- Copies
- 2 copies: Betacam SP master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 58 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Child survivors.
Forests.
Aid by non-Jews.
Postwar effects.
Survivor-child relations.
Postwar experiences. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Jewish children in the Holocaust. Escapes. Mothers and daughters. Orphanages--Poland. Refugee camps. Poland. Lublin (Poland) Heidelberg (Germany) Marseille (France) Oral histories (document genres) P., Sara,--1939- Budzyn (Concentration camp) Majdanek (Concentration camp) Lampertheim (Displaced persons camp) International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4412934
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-30 11:45:00
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