Fanny G. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Fanny G., who was born in Paris, France in 1921 to Polish immigrants. She recalls her three brothers; moving with her family to Cantal in 1940, then to Lyon; resistance activities with the MUR; visiting her parents and brothers who were hiding in Savoie; arrest in June 1944; imprisonment in Montluçon; Gestapo torture and beatings; friendships with prisoners that endure to the present; transfer to Drancy; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in August; frequent appels and selections; transfer with friends to Krautau; slave labor in an airplane factory; sabotaging the parts; receiving food and clothing from Italian POWs; liberation by Soviet troops; escaping rape because the Soviet soldier was so drunk; assistance from the Red Cross; traveling to Děčín; repatriation to Paris via Sarreguemines; reunion with her brother and parents; and marriage to a non-Jew in 1947. Mrs. G. notes the importance of friends to her survival; brief hospitalization in camp for typhus; women giving birth in camps; postwar prejudice against Jewish deportees; continuing nightmares and insomnia resulting from her experiences; visiting Auschwitz with her husband; continuing to hate those who victimized her; and pessimism about the future.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.
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Process Info
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People
- G., Fanny, -- 1921-
Corporate Bodies
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- Drancy (Concentration camp)
- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
- Kratzau I (Concentration camp)
- Mouvements unis de résistance (France)
Subjects
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- France.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Nightmares.
- Sabotage.
- Prisoners of war -- Czechoslovakia.
- Friendship.
- Antisemitism -- Postwar.
- Hospitals in concentration camps.
- Childbirth in concentration camps.
- Resistance.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.
- Postwar experiences.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Mutual aid.
- Postwar effects.
Places
- Sarreguemines (France)
- Paris (France)
- France.
- Děčín (Czech Republic)
- Savoie (France)
- Lyon (France)
- Cantal (France)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat