Renee G. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Renee G., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1923. She recalls her happy youth; German invasion; ghettoization; hiding in bunkers; her parents' deportation to Treblinka in 1940; living with her brother and posing as his wife; hiding in a chimney during a round-up; her brother's arrest; joining the underground; arrest with her sister while hiding in a bunker following the Warsaw ghetto uprising; two days on the Umschlagplatz followed by deportation with her sister to Majdanek; slave labor and selections; transport to a HASAG ammunition factory, then to Leipzig at the end of 1944; the death march in April 1945; liberation by Soviet troops from a barn; and returning to Warsaw. Mrs. G. describes living with her sister in a town near Warsaw; her marriage in Wroc?aw; waiting with her husband in Ebensee to emigrate to Palestine; her son's birth in the Landsberg displaced persons camp; following her husband to Paris; and emigration to the United States in 1954.
Extent and Medium
2 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
People
- G., Renee, -- 1923-
Corporate Bodies
- Majdanek (Concentration camp)
- Landsberg am Lech (Displaced persons camp)
Subjects
- Hiding.
- Bunkers.
- Resistance.
- Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance.
- Death marches.
- Refugee camps.
- Forced labor.
- Brothers and sisters.
- Jewish ghettos.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- WrocĹaw (Poland)
- Warsaw ghetto.
- Ebensee (Austria : Refugee camp)
- Poland.
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Leipzig (Germany)
- Paris (France)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat