Kristine K. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Kristine K., who was born in L?vov, Poland in 1935. She recounts their affluence; her brother's birth; Soviet occupation; confiscation of the family business; German invasion; hiding with her brother during round-ups; ghettoization; her father organizing their escape with others by digging a tunnel to the sewers; sewer workers who agreed to help them; escape with her parents, brother, and others to the sewers in June 1943; moving several times within the sewers; one worker, Socha, consistently helping them, even after they had no funds; her uncle's drowning death; her father telling jokes, reciting poetry, and putting on plays; liberation by Soviet troops in July 1944; fleeing to Przemys?l, then Krako?w to escape Soviet rule; antisemitic harassment; her father changing their name to sound "more Polish"; posing as a Catholic in school; their emigration to Israel in 1957; attending dental school; marriage; her son's birth; emigration to the United States in 1968; and another son's birth. Ms. K. discusses continuing contact with friends from the sewer; nightmares resulting from her experiences; and sharing her story with her children and students. She shows photographs, documents, memorabilia, and a book about her experience.
Extent and Medium
3 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
- K., Kristine, -- 1935-
Corporate Bodies
- Intenational Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
Subjects
- Survivor-child relations.
- Postwar effects.
- Mutual aid.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Antisemitism -- Postwar.
- Postwar experiences.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- Escapes.
- Jews -- Ukraine -- Lʹviv.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Family.
- Hiding.
- Soviet occupation.
- Child survivors.
- Nightmares.
Places
- Poland.
- Lv́ov ghetto.
- Lʹviv (Ukraine)
- Przemyśl (Poland)
- Kraków (Poland)
- Israel.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat