Helen G. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Helen G., who was born in Poland in 1912. She recounts her mother's death; her father's remarriage; his death when she was ten; living with her sister in Krako?w; German invasion in 1939; anti-Jewish measures; obtaining false papers from a non-Jew; returning to her hometown in 1940; hiding during round-ups; assistance from non-Jewish neighbors; traveling to Krako?w, then Tarno?w, using false papers; volunteering for forced labor in Germany; working in Berlin in 1942, posing as a Ukrainian laborer; returning to Krako?w; working as a domestic for a Polish family, then a German official; assisting a cousin in hiding; moving outside the city in 1945, fearing exposure; liberation by Soviet troops; living in displaced persons camps in Wels, Linz, and Salzburg; marriage; her son's birth in 1949; and emigration to the United States in 1950. Mrs. G. discusses being motivated by messages received in dreams and her distrust of non-Jews. 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
- G., Helen, -- 1912-
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Jews -- Poland -- Kraków.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Refugee camps.
- Forced labor.
- False papers.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Mutual aid.
- Hiding.
- Postwar experiences.
Places
- Kraków (Poland)
- Poland.
- Berlin (Germany)
- Tarnów (Województwo Małopolskie, Poland)
- Wels (Austria : Refugee camp)
- Kraków ghetto.
- Salzburg (Austria : Refugee camp)
- Linz (Austria : Refugee camp)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat