June F. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of June F., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1922. She recounts her comfortable childhood and loving family; joining her grandmother in the Warsaw ghetto in 1941; escaping with false papers to the Aryan side; assistance from a German in obtaining a job in the Tomaszo?w ghetto; transfer with her husband to Bliz?yn in 1943, three months after their marriage; deportation with her husband to Auschwitz; communicating with him until his deportation to another camp; selections and meaningless slave labor; public hanging of those who tried to escape; cleaning sewers as a punishment for escaping from a transport; deportation to Bergen-Belsen in 1945; liberation by British troops in April 1945; her inability to take revenge; fear that liberation was not true; reunion with her husband in Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp; obtaining an abortion (she did not want to have a child in Germany); emigration to the United States in October 1949; and a nervous breakdown when her daughter was nine months old. Mrs. F. discusses the importance of maintaining friendship, humor, and normal desires to her survival; learning not to hate; and a visit to Bergen-Belsen with her daughter.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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People
- F., June, -- 1922-
Corporate Bodies
- DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen.
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
- Bliżyn (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Postwar experiences.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- False papers.
- Refugee camps.
- Postwar effects.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Jews -- Poland -- Tomaszów Mazowiecki.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Abortion.
- Concentration camps -- Psychological aspects.
- Friendship.
- Husband and wife.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
Places
- Łódź (Poland)
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Warsaw ghetto.
- Tomaszów Mazowiecki ghetto.
- Poland.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat