Fanka G. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Fanka G., who was born in Galicia in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy prior to World War I. She recalls fleeing the war to Vienna in 1914; marriage in 1923; moving to Zolochiv for her husband's medical practice; her son's birth; fleeing with her husband, mother, and son to Zalishchyky when the Soviets invaded; Soviet occupation; returning home; going alone to a spa in Morshin; German invasion; retrieving her son from Stryi? via Kalush; traveling with him to L?viv; eventually returning home; being hidden by her husband's non-Jewish assistant during round-ups; receiving food from her husband's non-Jewish patients; contacts with the underground through a friend; receiving false papers from the underground; hiding in Warsaw, Milano?wek, and on a farm near Germany from November 1942 on; arrests, escapes and near arrests; evacuation to ?owicz as Soviets approached; liberation by Soviet troops; traveling to Praga; leaving Poland after the Kielce pogrom (her husband treated some victims); living in Paris for three years; emigration to Canada; and her husband re-establishing his career with assistance from HIAS. Ms. G. discusses her nightmares; unwanted, pervasive memories; gratitude to the Poles who saved them; and many memories she has not talked about.

2 videocassettes