Kay F. Holocaust testimony
Streszczenie
Videotape testimony of Kay F., who was born in Sieradz, Poland in 1919. She recalls her father's career as a physician; attending university in Krako?w; completing her last year at home due to increasing antisemitism; German invasion; fleeing with her family to relatives in ?o?dz?; returning to Sieradz; her father's brief imprisonment; traveling with her parents to Sandomierz; deportation with her family and her fiance? to Cze?stochowa concentration camp; slave labor in the HASAG factory; marriage; posing as her father's wife to assist him in providing medical care; transfer to Bergen-Belsen in January 1945; selection for a transport; escaping during an Allied bombing; hiding in a forest, then a nearby village; liberation by United States troops; recovering in Landsberg displaced persons camp; learning her parents and brother were killed; reunion with her husband in Stuttgart; assistance from the Red Cross; working to assist orphans; and emigrating to join relatives in the United States.
Rozmiary i nośnik
2 videocassettes
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.
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Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Informacje dotyczące procedury
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Osoby
- F., Kay, -- 1919-
Ciała zbiorowe
- Częstochowa (Concentration camp)
- Landsberg am Lech (Displaced persons camp)
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
- Hugo Schneider Aktiengesellschaft.
- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
Tematy
- Postwar experiences.
- Escapes.
- Forced labor.
- Husband and wife.
- Concentration camp inmates -- Family relationships.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Refugee camps.
- Marriage in concentration camps.
- Hiding.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Fathers and daughters.
- Mothers and daughters.
Miejsca
- Sieradz (Poland)
- Poland.
- Łódź (Poland)
- Kraków (Poland)
- Stuttgart (Germany)
- Sandomierz (Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat