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Krystyna S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-10) interviewed by Dori Laub and Laurel Vlock,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-10

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Krystyna S., a non-Jew who was born in Poland in 1928. She discusses the bombing of Warsaw and her separation from her father at the outbreak of the war; life in Warsaw with her mother and younger sister; and the fact that the concentration camps were common knowledge. She tells of her evacuation from her house; her recollections of the Warsaw ghetto uprising; and her deportation to Bergen-Belsen, where she and her mother worked as slave laborers. She recounts her life in Bergen-Belsen; liberation; her postwar return to Bergen-Belsen and other displaced persons camps to look for family members; and the continuing psychological effects of her wartime experiences.
Author/Creator: S., Krystyna, 1928-
Published: New Haven, Conn. : Holocaust Survivors Film Project, 1980
Interview Date: January 7, 1980.
Locale: Poland
Warsaw (Poland)
Cite As: Krystyna S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-10). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Laub, Dori, interviewer.
Vlock, Laurel, interviewer.
Notes: Unpublished finding aid available in repository; 1/2 in. VHS is linked to finding aid by time coding.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 3 copies: 3/4 in. master; 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (2 hrs.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Concentration camp inmates Non-Jewish.
Subjects: Mothers and daughters. Video tapes. Concentration camp inmates. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Psychological aspects. World War, 1939-1945--Children. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Polish. Forced labor. Poland. Warsaw (Poland) Oral histories (document genres) S., Krystyna,--1928- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
Special Collection: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

Link to Yale University Library Catalog:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/616898
Record last modified:: 2018-05-29 11:47:00
This page:: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt616898

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