Tirca G. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 2197
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Tirca G., who was born in Zagreb, Croatia. She describes her father's apothecary in Gradac?ac; attending school in Gradac?ac, then Osijek; returning to Gradac?ac in 1941; being ruled by newly formed Croatia, a German ally; anti-Jewish restrictions enforced by Ustas?a; hearing of a massacre of Jews; fleeing with help from a Muslim family; hiding in Tolisa, with help from a priest, until 1943; returning to Gradac?ac; joining the partisans; her partisan wedding; working as a partisan nurse in Sekovice and Bijeljina; denunciation with her mother as partisans by Chetniks; assuming a non-Jewish name; imprisonment in Bijeljina and Brcko; separation and killing of the Jews, including her mother; transfer to Osijek, then as a non-Jewish slave laborer to a munitions factory in Germany in 1944; liberation by Soviet troops in 1945; reunion with her husband; traveling with him to Subotica; and a nervous breakdown after learning no one from her family had survived. Mrs. G. relates returning to Gradac?ac; learning her father survived as a partisan; and her postwar life.

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

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