Olga S. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Olga S., who was born in Vilna, Poland. She describes her prewar life in Vilna; life under the Russian occupation from 1939 to 1941; and the German occupation, including anti-Jewish legislation, ghettoization, the massacre at Ponary, and deportations. She also relates her wartime experiences of hiding in a convent and on a farm; smuggling herself back into the ghetto when she faced danger on the Aryan side; working in a labor camp with false papers; and hiding in a bunker with her father and other Jews, where she remained until her liberation by the Russians.
Extent and Medium
3 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)
Conditions Governing Access
This testimony is open with permission.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.
Rules and Conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- S., Olga.
Subjects
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Jews -- Lithuania -- Vilnius.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Convents.
- Paneriai Massacres, Paneriai, Lithuania, 1941-1944.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Hiding.
- Soviet occupation.
- Mass killings.
- False papers.
Places
- Vilna ghetto.
- Poland.
- Vilnius (Lithuania)
- Vilna (Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- ftamc