- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Zofia D., who was born in Brzeziny, Poland, in 1923. Mrs. D. recalls her extended family; living with her aunt and uncle when her family moved to Tomaszów Mazowiecki; receiving anti-Semitic threats as the only Jew in school in Koluszki; a volksdeutsche girlfriend who later joined the Gestapo; German occupation; angering police by trying to conceal her yellow star; buying her uncle out of a Gestapo jail; and joining her parents in Tomaszów. She relates ghetto conditions; execution of the Judenrat head and his sons (one of whom was her boyfriend); escape with her aunt and uncle (her brothers and parents remained); living on the Aryan side in Warsaw; the 1944 uprising; separation from her relatives in Wola; deportation from Pruszków for forced labor; serving as a domestic on an estate in Namslau; liberation; and being raped by a Soviet soldier. She describes return to Koluszki; reunion with her aunt and uncle; living in Łódź; emigration in 1946 to Sweden, then to Canada in 1948 to marry; lingering psychological effects of her experience; and her sense of loss at her husband's death.
- Author/Creator
- D., Zofia, 1923-
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1991
- Interview Date
- May 2, 1991.
- Locale
- Poland
Tomaszów Mazowiecki
Brzeziny (Łódź, Poland)
Tomaszów Mazowiecki (Poland)
Warsaw (Poland)
Pruszków (Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland)
Namysłów (Poland)
Łódź (Poland)
Koluszki (Poland)
Wola (Poland)
- Cite As
- Zofia D. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1503). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Cohen, Frances Proctor, interviewer.
Ritvo, Lucille B.,
