Toby F. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Toby F., who was born in Chernyt?s?i?a?, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1926. She describes celebrating Shabbat and holidays; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in 1941; having to provide gold and wheat to the Germans; ghettoization in Brody; returning with her sister to Chernyt?s?i?a? (her parents and other siblings stayed behind); separation from her sister, who returned to Brody; her mother's arrival after the liquidation of the ghetto (her father, brother, and two sisters had been killed); hiding in the forest and with non-Jews; occasionally meeting her mother who was hiding elsewhere; liberation by Soviet troops; moving with her mother to Podkamen?, Kremenet?s??, L?viv, then to a cousin's in Dubno; living in Pocking and Fo?hrenwald displaced persons camps; assistance from UNRRA; her mother's stroke; visiting her in a Munich hospital; her mother's emigration to join relatives in the United States; moving to Bad Wo?rishofen displaced persons camp; marriage; and her own emigration to the United States in 1949 with assistance from HIAS and relatives. Ms. F. shows photographs and discusses her books and paintings.

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