- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Rose S., who was born in Minsk, Byelorussia, in 1921. She tells of her family's move to Końskie, Poland; the outbreak of war in 1939 while she was nearby in Przedbórz; fleeing with her boyfriend to Ostrów Lubelski in the Soviet zone; his return; and her marriage to a local artist/musician. Mrs. S. recalls the German invasion; ghettoization; her husband's murder in an Aktion; working as a housekeeper for German soldiers; hiding during a round-up in which her in-laws were taken; being forewarned of Aktions by a German soldier; and escaping with false papers to Zdolbuniv to find Fritz Graebe. She recounts being sent by Graebe to work in Rovno in 1942; concealing her identity during a Gestapo interrogation; obtaining a job through her boss as a "Polish" housekeeper for a banker in Berlin; forced labor in Kremmen after a 1943 decree forbade employing foreign servants; and liberation by American troops. She describes an NKVD interrogation as a suspected collaborator; returning to Poland; her active participation in Aliyah Bet; arrival in Palestine in 1948; and working in a hospital during the 1948 war.
- Author/Creator
- S., Rose, 1921-
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1988
- Interview Date
- May 13, 1988.
- Locale
- Poland
Ostrów Lubelski
Belarus
Minsk (Belarus)
Końskie (Województwo Świętokrzyskie, Poland)
Przedbórz (Łódź, Poland)
Ostrów Lubelski (Poland)
Zdolbuniv (Ukraine)
Rivne (Rivnensʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine)
Berlin (Germany)
Kremmen (Germany)
Palestine
- Cite As
- Rose S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1093). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Herz, Sara Moss, interviewer.
Kline, Dana L., interviewer.
