- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Genia T., who is from Chrzanów, Poland. She speaks of her life under German occupation, working as a forced laborer making buttons. She recounts the round-up, while she was away at work, of her husband, father, and siblings for deportation from the Chrzanów ghetto. Only her husband survived. Mrs. T. describes her transfer to a slave labor camp in Bernsdorf, Czechoslovakia, and details conditions there, where she remained as a worker in a mattress factory until her liberation by the Russians. She also mentions her return home after the war; her reunion with her husband; and their emigration to the United States. Other topics include reflections on attempts to remain religiously observant during the Holocaust; the lasting effects of her experiences; the importance of her children; and the failure of the United States to intervene on behalf of the victims of the Holocaust.
- Author/Creator
- T., Genia.
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Holocaust Survivors Film Project, 1980
- Interview Date
- February 16, 1980.
- Locale
- Poland
Chrzanów
Chrzanów (Poland)
- Cite As
- Genia T. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-25). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Vlock, Laurel, interviewer.
- Notes
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Unpublished finding aid available in repository; 1/2 in. VHS is linked to finding aid by time coding.