Jeanette E. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Jeanette E., who was born in Myszko?w, Poland in 1923. She recalls antisemitic harassment; attending boarding school in Cze?stochowa; German invasion; confiscation of her father's coal mine; moving to the Zawiercie ghetto; forced labor with her sister in a camp; joining her family in the Sosnowiec ghetto; forced labor in the Be?dzin ghetto; obtaining false papers; hiding during a round-up; escaping to the Kamionka ghetto; being hidden by her future husband; their escape with help from the underground; hiding in bunkers; being smuggled to Hungary with help from Poles and No'ar ha-Tsiyioni; marriage; their arrest in Baja; separation from her husband (they informed her he died); transfer to Budapest; escaping; reconnecting with No'ar ha-Tsiyoni; being smuggled to Arad; arrest; escaping to Bucharest; embarking for Palestine; debarkation in Istanbul since her baby was due; her son's birth; traveling to Palestine in December 1944; learning her husband was alive; joining him in Munich; and their emigration to the United States in 1951. Ms. E. notes sharing her history with her older son, but stopping after he told her it made him cry; her other children not wanting to hear, but her younger son later showing interest; and difficulty telling him after years of silence.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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Process Info
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People
- E., Jeanette, -- 1923-
Corporate Bodies
- Noʻar ha-Tsiyoni (Organization)
Subjects
- Husband and wife.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Hungarian.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Poland.
- Escapes.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- False papers.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Postwar experiences.
- Jews -- Poland -- Będzin.
- Jews -- Poland -- Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie)
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Poland -- Zawiercie.
- Sisters.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance.
- Jews -- Poland -- Kamionka.
- Forced labor.
- Holocaust survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- Bunkers.
- Hiding.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Mutual aid.
Places
- Będzin ghetto.
- Zawiercie ghetto.
- Kamionka ghetto.
- Sosnowiec ghetto.
- Baja (Hungary)
- Zawiercie (Poland)
- Arad (Romania)
- Budapest (Hungary)
- Istanbul (Turkey)
- Bucharest (Romania)
- Munich (Germany)
- Palestine -- Emigration and immigration.
- Myszków (Poland)
- Częstochowa (Poland)
- Poland.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat