- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Carol W., who was born in Stanisławów, Poland (now Ivano-Frankovsk, Ukraine), in 1915. Mrs. W. relates her marriage; the birth of her son Clemens L. in 1937; Soviet, then German occupation; the shooting of some 10,000 Jews in an Aktion; ghettoization; believing her family safe because her father was in the Judenrat; hiding with other relatives during a September 1942 Aktion when her husband and father were taken; and escaping on false papers with her son, brother, and niece. She tells of taking her son to Lwów; a narrow escape en route; securing a job and sending for her mother; incarceration for six weeks in Janowska; repeated selections; escaping; her mother's death; journeying to Warsaw; reunion with her brother; placing her son in a convent at Otwock; and becoming nanny to a Gestapo officer's child. She recounts being unable to visit her son due to the Polish Warsaw uprising; a Polish woman saving her from deportation in Pruszków; liberation; reunion with her son; and selling contraband cigarettes in Katowice to support herself after the war. This testimony contains numerous examples of assistance by non-Jews.
- Author/Creator
- W., Carol, 1915-
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1990
- Interview Date
- March 24, 1990.
- Locale
- Ukraine
Stanislav
Poland
Stanislav (Ukraine)
Lʹviv (Ukraine)
Otwock (Poland)
Katowice (Poland)
Pruszków (Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland)
- Cite As
- Carol W. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1316). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Millen, Susan, interviewer.
Laub, Dori, interviewer.
- Notes
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Associated material: Clemens L. Holocaust testimony [son] (HVT-1315), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
