Renee G. Holocaust testimony
Streszczenie
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.
Rozmiary i nośnik
2 videocassettes
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.
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Osoby
- G., Renee, -- 1923-
Ciała zbiorowe
- Majdanek (Concentration camp)
- Landsberg am Lech (Displaced persons camp)
Tematy
- 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.
Miejsca
- WrocĹaw (Poland)
- Warsaw ghetto.
- Ebensee (Austria : Refugee camp)
- Poland.
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Leipzig (Germany)
- Paris (France)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat