Doris K. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Doris K., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1919. She recalls two brothers emigrating to Palestine in 1937 and 1938; active participation in No?ar ha-Tsiyoni; ghettoization with her parents and brother in 1940; cultural activities; severe hunger; her father encouraging them; deportation to Auschwitz in August 1944; separation from her family (she never saw her parents again); transfer six weeks later to Glogau; slave labor digging anti-tank ditches; a death march; escaping in Resko with a friend who encouraged her to go on; assistance from a local woman; liberation by Soviet troops in Resko; hospitalization in Sulecho?w; returning to ?o?dz?; marriage; reunion with her brother; emigration to the United States; and health problems related to her experiences. Ms. K. reads poetry she wrote about her experiences and shows photographs.
Extent and Medium
3 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
- K., Doris, -- 1919-
Corporate Bodies
- Noʻar ha-Tsiyoni (Organization)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Death marches.
- Escapes.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Forced labor.
- Poetry.
- Antisemitism -- Postwar.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Poland -- Łódź.
- Mutual aid.
- Postwar effects.
- Postwar experiences.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
Places
- Glogau (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Łódź ghetto.
- Sulechów (Zielona Góra, Poland)
- Łódź (Poland)
- Resko (Poland)
- Poland.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat