- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Anna G., who was born in Drohobych, Ukraine (then Poland), in 1929. She speaks of her prewar life, life under Russian occupation, and her experience of the German occupation of her town. She notes the worsening conditions under German occupation, culminating in the deportations and (as they learned only later) mass murder of Jews, including Mrs. G.'s mother, sister, and young niece. She tells of living with her father and brother in Drohobych; in the Gestapo camp on Janowska Street, where she had to hide in a closet for over a year and was finally discovered by a German officer; and in Płaszów, the labor camp near Kraków. Mrs. G. also describes her deportation to Auschwitz, where she was separated from her father and brother but reunited with her sister, only to be separated from her again; and her life there. The death march from Auschwitz, which began just after Mrs. G.'s sixteenth birthday, is recounted, as are her subsequent internments in Bergen-Belsen and Mauthausen, where, gravely ill with typhus, she was liberated.
She discusses her postwar life, including her reunion with her brother and sister, with whom she lived in Breslau and German DP camps before emigrating to the United States; her husband, also a survivor, whom she met in Europe and married in the United States; her children; and psychological effects of her wartime experiences. The abandonment of children by parents is a theme which recurs in this testimony. Mrs. G. tells how she was haunted by one such instance when her first child was born.
- Author/Creator
- G., Anna, 1929-
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Holocaust Survivors Film Project, 1980
- Interview Date
- February 18, 1980 and April 28, 1980.
- Locale
- Poland
Drohobych (Ukraine)
Wrocław (Poland)
- Cite As
- Anna G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-108). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Vlock, Laurel, interviewer.
Benda, Eva, interviewer.
Auerhahn, Nanette, interviewer.
- Notes
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Unpublished finding aid available in repository; 1/2 in. VHS is linked to finding aid by time coding.
