Tamara K. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 1665
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Tamara K., who was born in Minsk, Belarus in 1922 and raised in Seirijai, Lithuania. She describes her family's strong Zionist commitment; school quotas due to antisemitism; being sent to Kaunas to attend school; German invasion in 1941; mass killings; ghettoization; losing contact with her family; living with her fiance?'s parents; exemption from forced labor and receiving extra food because her fiance? was in the Jewish police; deportation to Stutthof in June 1944 (she never saw her fiance? or family again); starvation and cold leading to her wish to die; evacuation by boat to Kiel in spring 1945; liberation by British troops; transfer to a hospital in Itzehoe, then Sankt Ottilien; moving to Munich; working for a Zionist organization; hearing from her uncles in the United States; emigration to join them; and marriage to a man she had met in Munich. She discusses her depression and fear in the ghetto and camps, and learning how her family was killed.

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., Tamara, -- 1922-

Corporate Bodies

  • Stutthof (Concentration camp)

Subjects

  • Jewish ghettos.
  • Concentration camps -- Psychological aspects.
  • Forced labor.
  • Jews -- Lithuania -- Kaunas.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
  • Antisemitism -- Prewar.
  • Mass killings.
  • Zionist organizations.
  • Jewish ghettos -- Psychological aspects.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Women.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Video tapes.

Places

  • Minsk (Belarus)
  • Belarus.
  • Seirijai (Lithuania)
  • Kaunas (Lithuania)
  • Itzehoe (Germany)
  • Kiel (Germany)
  • Sankt Ottilien (Germany)
  • Munich (Germany)
  • Kovno ghetto.

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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