Sabina G. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Sabina G., who was born in Ulano?w, Poland in 1922. She recalls her family's comfortable, observant life; attending Polish and Jewish schools; antisemitism; brief Soviet occupation; German invasion; antisemitic measures; being beaten by a German; her brother's arrest; bringing him food in Janow Lubelski; obtaining his release through the Judenrat and her father's Polish colleague; her adopted brother's arrest (she never saw him again); the murder of her uncle, his family, and other Jews in Wo?lka Tanewska by ethnic Germans; their burial in a mass grave; obtaining false papers; moving to Stryi? with her future husband, posing as Christian Poles; arrest and release by a Polish soldier; obtaining a false birth certificate with a priest's help; witnessing round-ups and mass killings of Jews; moving to a nearby town in 1944; resistance activities protecting Poles from Ukrainians; liberation by Soviet troops; visiting Ulano?w (none of her family survived); her husband's conscription into the Soviet army; traveling to Sanok; reunion with her husband in Rzeszo?w; moving to Rozwado?w and Pi?awa Go?rna; continuing to live as Christians; bearing two children; and emigration to Israel in 1957 and to the United States in 1960. Mrs. G. discusses nervousness and depression resulting from her experiences and revealing their Jewishness and experiences to their children.
Extent and Medium
4 videocassettes
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- G., Sabina, -- 1922-
Subjects
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Soviet occupation.
- Mass killings.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Identification (Religion)
- Jewish councils.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Poland.
- Hiding.
- Postwar experiences.
- Postwar effects.
- Surivor-child relations.
- False papers.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Resistance.
Places
- Piława Górna (Poland)
- Rozwadów (Poland)
- Rzeszów (Poland)
- Sanok (Poland)
- Stryĭ (Ukraine)
- Wólka Tanewska (Poland)
- Ulanów (Poland)
- Poland.
- Janow Lubelski (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Israel.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat