Rose S. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 1536
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Rose S., who was born in Jod?owa, Poland in 1925. She recounts her family's affluence; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; her parents fleeing; remaining with her brother and grandfathers; searches by German police seeking her father; Germans beating her paternal grandfather; his death; hiding with her brother in her maternal grandparents' house; warnings by a non-Jew of an imminent German search; hiding in the forests, then in the home of her father's business associate, with her brother and parents for two and a half years; going out to obtain food; denouncement; arrest; escaping from prison; hiding in the forest, then returning to her father's associate's house; liberation by Soviet troops; traveling to Pilzno, Bytom, and through Czechoslovakia and Austria; living in Ulm displaced persons camp; and emigration to the United States.

Extent and Medium

2 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., Rose, -- 1925-

Subjects

  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • Women.
  • Video tapes.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Aid by non-Jews.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Child survivors.
  • Antisemitism -- Prewar.
  • Hiding.
  • Forests.
  • Brothers and sisters.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.
  • Escapes.
  • Refugee camps.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
  • Jewish children in the Holocaust.
  • Fathers and daughters.
  • Mothers and daughters.

Places

  • Poland.
  • Ulm (Germany : Refugee camp)
  • Austria.
  • Pilzno (Poland)
  • Jodłowa (Poland)
  • Czechoslovakia.
  • Bytom (Poland)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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