Shary K. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Shary K., who was born in Travnik, Yugoslavia in 1918. She tells of her marriage on April 6, 1941, the day of the German invasion; living in Tuzla; leaving her mother behind (she never saw her again) to escape, dressed as a Muslim, to Mostar to join her husband; working as a nurse for the partisans; fleeing to Bari, Italy; emigration to the United States; life at Fort Ontario; and their return trip to Yugoslavia in 1991.
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
- K., Shary, -- 1918-
Corporate Bodies
- Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter.
Subjects
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- Refugees, Jewish.
- Partisans.
- Italian occupation.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Yugoslavia.
- Husband and wife.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
Places
- Bosnia and Hercegovina.
- Travnik (Travnik, Bosnia and Hercegovina)
- Tuzla (Bosnia and Hercegovina)
- Mostar (Bosnia and Hercegovina)
- Yugoslavia.
- Bari (Italy)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat