Luba S. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Luba S., who was born in Pruz?h?any, Poland (presently Belarus) in 1921, one of three children. She recounts her father's death when she was a young child, their poverty; attending a Jewish school until grade seven; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; antisemitic violence; her brother serving in the Polish military when war began in 1939; Soviet occupation; German invasion in 1941; ghettoziation; assistance from a non-Jewish neighbor; deportation with her mother and sister to Auschwitz/Birkenau; remaining with her sister; slave labor; a former teacher sharing extra food with them; encountering her brother; transfer to Bergen-Belsen in 1945; assistance from the Joint after liberation; emigration to the United States in 1949; marriage; and the births of three children. She shows a photograph of her school.
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., Luba, -- 1921-
Corporate Bodies
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- World Hashomer Hatzair.
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Forced labor.
- Brothers and sisters.
- Soviet occupation.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Jewish ghettos.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Sisters.
- Jews -- Belarus -- Pruz︠h︡any.
- Mutual aid.
- Aid by non-Jews.
Places
- Pruz︠h︡any ghetto.
- Pruz︠h︡any (Belarus)
- Poland.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat