Frieda S. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Frieda S., who was born in 1914. She recounts the deaths of her parents; living with an aunt and uncle in Boryslav; vacations in Tyszowce; becoming a dressmaker; working in L?viv, Dobromyl?, and Krako?w; Soviet invasion in 1939 during a family visit in Boryslav; anti-Jewish violence; Soviet occupation; German invasion in 1941; paying a non-Jew to hide her sister; ghettoization; round-up and incarceration in a movie theater; her non-Jewish employer obtaining her release; hiding in a bunker for two days; slave labor constructing roads; escaping from another round-up; returning to the ghetto; escaping and hiding in a bunker in the forest in winter 1944; capture; deportation to Auschwitz; encountering her sister; briefly hiding her in her barrack; her sister's transfer; transfer to Kratzau in early 1945; slave labor in a factory; liberation by Soviet troops in May; returning to Krako?w; working at a Jewish orphanage in Zakopane; the orphanage's relocation to Paris; marriage; learning some of her siblings had survived; her child's birth; and emigration to the United States in 1957 to join her sister. Ms. S. discusses adjustment difficulties in the United States; frequent nightmares resulting from her experiences; pervasive painful memories; and her belief that her faith in God helped her survive.
Extent and Medium
3 videocassettes
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., Frieda, -- 1914-
Corporate Bodies
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Kratzau I (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- Sisters.
- Escapes.
- Jews -- Ukraine -- Boryslav.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Soviet occupation.
- Faith.
- Nightmares.
- Postwar effects.
- False papers.
- Bunkers.
- Hiding.
- Postwar experiences.
Places
- Poland.
- Kraków (Poland)
- Zakopane (Poland)
- Paris (France)
- Boryslaw ghetto.
- Boryslav (Ukraine)
- Tyszowce (Poland)
- Dobromylʹ (Ukraine)
- Lʹviv (Ukraine)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat