Rose G. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Rose G., who was born in Nasielsk, Poland in 1914. She recounts living with her husband's family in Serock; the outbreak of war; incarceration with her parents-in-law and children in the Nasielsk synagogue; a mass shooting of sick people behind the synagogue; transfer with her family to Kock via Warsaw; her child's and parents-in-law's death due to starvation; working with her husband on a Polish farm; her other children's denouncement while she was hiding in a different place; transfer with her brother to Parczew; then to the Mie?dzyrzecz ghetto; deportation after three months of slave labor in Majdanek to Auschwitz; hard labor and hunger; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; and liberation by British troops. Mrs. G. describes her marriage and daughter's birth in Bergen-Belsen after liberation and emigration to the United States in 1949.
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., Rose, -- 1914-
Corporate Bodies
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
- Majdanek (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen.
Subjects
- Jewish ghettos.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Mass killings.
- Hiding.
- Mutual aid.
- Postwar experiences.
- Children -- Death.
- Jews -- Poland -- Międzyrzecz.
- Forced labor.
- Husband -- Death.
Places
- Parczew (Biała Podlaska : Poland)
- Serock (Warsaw, Poland)
- Nasielsk (Poland)
- Kock (Poland)
- Poland.
- Międzyrzecz ghetto.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat