Sidi S. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Sidi S., who was born in Cerna?ut?i, Romania in 1926, one of four children. She recalls their relative affluence; attending Romanian school; Soviet occupation in 1940; German and Romanian invasion in 1941; anti-Jewish measures and violence; ghettoization; her family's return home after mass deportations in late 1941; street killings; deportation with her family in June 1942 to Transnistria; a camp manager observing her performing acrobatics; his exempting her family from deportation because of her performance; transfer with her family to Chetvertinovka; living in barns with animals; lice infestation and rampant disease; transfer to several other camps in the area; forced labor; liberation by Soviet troops in June 1944; their return home; living with relatives because their home was occupied; moving to Bucharest in 1946 in order to emigrate to Palestine; leaving her family to illegally enter Palestine in December 1947; incarceration on Cyprus; arrival in Israel in July 1948; her family joining her a few years later; and her emigration to the United States in 1956. Mrs. S. notes she frequently visits Israel. She shows photographs.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Process Info
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People
- S., Sidi, -- 1926-
Subjects
- Mutual aid.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Family.
- Child survivors.
- Soviet occupation.
- Postwar experiences.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Ukraine -- Chernivt︠s︡i.
- Forced labor.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Chetvertinovka (Ukraine : Concentration camp)
- Palestine -- Emigration and immigration.
- Cyprus.
- Czernowitz ghetto.
- Israel.
- Romania.
- Czernowitz (Austria)
- Bucharest (Romania)
- Transnistria (Ukraine : Territory under German and Romanian occupation, 1941-1944)
- Cernăuți (Romania)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat