Lea E. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Lea E., who was born in Danzig in 1925, an only child. She recalls antisemitism in school beginning in 1933; moving to Baranowicze, Poland in 1938; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in 1941; ghettoization; mass killings in 1942, including her mother; working as an interpreter for the Germans; forced labor manufacturing gloves; marriage; final liquidation of the ghetto; asking a German officer to allow her father and cousin to stay with her during a selection; their transfer to Koldyczewo in fall 1943; a three month plan to organize an escape; escaping with one hundred people in March 1944; joining the partisans; hiding in the forest; liberation by Soviet troops; their return to Baranowicze; moving to ?o?dz?; encountering antisemitism; relocating to Berlin; her Jewish marriage ceremony; and emigration with their two children to the United States in 1952 (her father moved to Israel). Mrs. E. discusses sharing her experience with her children and the death of a son at age twenty-five. She shows photographs.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Rules and Conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- E., Lea, -- 1925-
Subjects
- Survivor-child relations.
- Antisemitism -- Postwar.
- Postwar experiences.
- Partisans.
- Forests.
- Hiding.
- Mass killings.
- Soviet occupation.
- Mutual aid.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Poland.
- Concentration camp inmates -- Family relationships.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Belarus.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance -- Belarus.
- Fathers and daughters.
- Husband and wife.
- Forced labor.
- Escapes.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Belarus -- Baranowicze.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
Places
- Gdańsk (Poland)
- Koldyczewo (Belarus : Concentration camp)
- Baranowicze (Poland)
- Baranowicze ghetto.
- Berlin (Germany)
- Danzig (Germany)
- Baranavichy (Belarus)
- Łódź (Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat