Anna P. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Anna P., who was born in Boryslav, Poland (presently Ukraine)in 1926. She recalls antisemitic discrimination; visiting her grandparents in Sambir; German invasion in 1939; Soviet occupation; German invasion in June 1941; mass killings; ghettoization; escaping a mass killing in April 1943; incarceration; her uncle arranging her release; returning to the ghetto; her uncle hiding her with a Ukrainian farmer (she never saw her parents or brother again); leaving the farm; hiding in a forest with others; escaping capture with one girl; returning to the farm; from afar, observing the farmer murdering the other girl; assistance from another farmer; finding her uncle who placed her in the camp in Drohobych; escaping in March 1944; hiding with a Polish man; entering the camp in Boryslav; liberation by Soviet troops in July; reunion with her sister; denouncing her uncle's murderers; marriage; antisemitic violence; traveling to a refugee camp in Berlin with assistance from Berih?ah; her child's birth in Munich; and emigration to the United States. Mrs. P. details her family's deaths; constant fear during the war; continuing grief and pain; never discussing the war period with her husband or children; and hoping her children will hear this testimony. She 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
- P., Anna -- 1926-
Corporate Bodies
- Beriḥah (Organization)
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Postwar experiences.
- Forests.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Hiding.
- Soviet occupation.
- Antisemitism -- Postwar.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Mass killings.
- Postwar effects.
- Mutual aid.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Child survivors.
- Escapes.
- Refugee camps.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Psychological aspects.
Places
- Berlin (Germany : Refugee camp)
- Drohobych (Ukraine : Concentration camp)
- Boryslav (Ukraine : Concentration camp)
- Sambir (Sambirsʹkyĭ raĭon, Ukraine)
- Boryslav (Ukraine)
- Munich (Germany)
- Poland.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat