- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Felicia H., who was born in Chełm, Poland about 1920. She recalls Polish restrictions on Jews; her parents' decision and attempts to emigrate; moving to Warsaw in 1938; her father's departure for Bolivia in April 1939; German bombing of Warsaw on September 1; returning to Chełm with her mother; ghettoization; the role of the Judenrat, for which she worked; and transports of Jews to Sobibor and Majdanek. Mrs. H. describes hiding during the final liquidation; separation from her mother; traveling to Zakopane, then Kraków; obtaining false papers using the name of a Polish woman from Chełm; working for an S.S. officer whose wife knew she was Jewish; discovery and having to return to the Kraków ghetto; and deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau. She details life in Birkenau; the importance of helping each other and a sense of humor; her mother's words that "it would all be over someday" to which she attributes her survival; transport to Ober Alstadt; and liberation. She remembers returning to Chełm via Ostrava; animosity of the people in Chełm; learning of her mother's death; contact with her father in New York; living in Stockholm; and emigration to the United States.
- Author/Creator
- H., Felicia, 1920?-
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale, 1985
- Interview Date
- April 28, 1985.
- Locale
- Poland
Chełm (Lublin)
Warsaw
Kraków
Chełm (Lublin, Poland)
Warsaw (Poland)
Zakopane (Poland)
Kraków (Poland)
Ostrava (Czech Republic)
Łódź (Poland)
Stockholm (Sweden)
- Cite As
- Felicia H. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-570). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Blechner, Mark, interviewer.
Pasternak, Linda, interviewer.
