Sarah G. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Sarah G., who was born in Piotrko?w Trybunalski, Poland in 1920. She recounts her parents' former marriages (they each had four children); working in their summer restaurant in Ciechocinek; German invasion; returning to Piotrko?w; ghettoization; forced labor; deportations including her family; transfer to Difi in Bugaj; slave labor; transfer to Ravensbru?ck, then Bergen-Belsen, after about eight months; liberation by British troops; reunion with a half-brother and sister; living in Landsberg displaced persons camp; marriage; a daughter's birth; emigration to Israel (her siblings went to the United States after she left); the births of two more daughters; and emigration to the United States in 1956. Ms. G. discusses thinking only of herself, surviving the day, and not believing she would survive in concentration camps; waking up next to corpses in Bergen-Belsen; and not knowing how she survived such conditions. She shows photographs.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette
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
- G., Sarah, -- 1920-
Corporate Bodies
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
- Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
- Landsberg am Lech (Displaced persons camp)
Subjects
- Postwar experiences.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Concentration camps -- Psychological aspects.
- Refugee camps.
- Jews -- Poland -- Piotrków Trybunalski.
- Forced labor.
Places
- Israel.
- Ciechocinek (Poland)
- Difi in Bugaj (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Piotrków ghetto.
- Piotrków Trybunalski (Poland)
- Poland.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat