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Sonia M. Holocaust testimony (HVT-221) interviewed by Laurel Vlock and Dori Laub,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-221

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Sonia M., who was born in Dolginovo, Poland, near Vilna. Mrs. M. describes working in a labor camp near her town after the war's outbreak; the slaughter of one thousand people in her town in 1942; and a second massacre, in which her mother was killed. She recalls life in the town's ghetto; her and her father's escape; and their joining partisans hiding in the woods. She recounts scouting enemy movements for the partisans; liberation in 1944 by the Russians; and her return home, where she found only one surviving sibling of four. Mrs. M. relates her psychosomatic responses to fear during her years in hiding; her three years in displaced persons camps; her marriage in 1947; her emigration to the United States in 1949; and her postwar life.
Author/Creator: M., Sonia.
Published: New Haven, Conn. : Holocaust Survivors Film Project, 1979
Interview Date: July 15, 1979.
Locale: Poland
Daŭhinava (Minskai︠a︡ voblastsʹ, Belarus)
Vilnius (Lithuania)
Cite As: Sonia M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-221). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Vlock, Laurel, interviewer.
Laub, Dori, interviewer.
Notes: This testimony has poor video quality.

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 (34 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Partisans.
Forests.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Jewish ghettos. World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Psychological aspects. Forced labor. Poland. Daŭhinava (Minskai︠a︡ voblastsʹ, Belarus) Oral histories (document genres) Vilnius (Lithuania) Refugee camps. M., Sonia.

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/801244
Record last modified:: 2018-05-29 11:58:00
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