Tema H. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 2230
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Tema H., who was born in Jano?w Lubelski, Poland in 1928. She recounts moving to Jarocin in 1932; German invasion; her father's round-up; her mother obtaining his release; her sister's beating by Germans; her brother's arrest, then release; orders to report to another village; hiding with a Polish peasant, then with a friend; leaving due to fear of exposure; being taken to the police; release by a policeman; hiding in the forest; returning to Jarocin; reunion with her father; hiding with her family; her brother's escape from a beating by Poles; hiding in a bunker; her father being killed; joining Soviet partisans with her sister (her mother and brothers remained hidden); her evacuation to Kiev; attending school; longing for her family (her mother, sister, and baby brother survived); traveling to Kaunas in 1945 to rejoin them; obtaining false papers to enter Poland; traveling to Kras?nik, then Gliwice; reunion with her family; their journey to Leipheim displaced persons camp with assistance from Berih?ah; marriage; and emigration to the United States in 1953. She discusses continuing fears due to her experience; her brother's and father's deaths; testifying for the policeman who saved her; and details of hiding and partisan life. She shows photographs.

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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