Ellen H. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Ellen H., who was born in Tyszowce, Poland in 1915. She recalls moving with her parents to Zamos?c?; engagement to her future husband; living with her older brother in ?o?dz?; returning home; German invasion; going to her fiance?'s small village for two weeks; returning home; brief Soviet occupation; receiving a letter from her fiance? asking her to join him in Soviet territory; her parents encouraging her to go; meeting her fiance? in Lut?s??k; marriage; being sent to Kazan?, then to Siberia; living in Asino; volunteering for transfer after German invasion of the Soviet Union; traveling to Uzbekistan; her daughter's birth; harsh living conditions; returning home after the war; learning all their family had perished; traveling to Germany; living in a displaced persons' camp; her son's birth in 1947; her daughter's birth in 1950; and their emigration to the United States in 1951. She shows photographs.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette
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
- H., Ellen, -- 1915-
Subjects
- Soviet occupation.
- Postwar experiences.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Refugee camps.
- Refugees, Jewish.
- Husband and wife.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
Places
- Poland.
- Zamość (Poland)
- Lut︠s︡ʹk (Poland)
- Tyszowce (Poland)
- Łódź (Poland)
- Uzbekistan.
- Germany.
- Kazanʹ (Russia)
- Asino (Russia)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat