Grunia M. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 3281
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Grunia M., who was born in Lysyanka, Ukraine in 1924. She recalls moving to Zvenigorodka with her family; attending Ukrainian school; German occupation; forced labor; torture and mass shooting of Jewish men; forced labor in a German hospital; transfer to a labor camp with her mother and two sisters; public executions; quarry work; escaping to Popivka with her younger sister with assistance from non-Jews; leaving her sister with a non-Jewish friend in Petrivka; obtaining false papers; fleeing to Tarashcha; imprisonment; release due to a non-Jewish friend vouching for her; liberation by Soviet troops in Lysyanka; reunion with her mother and sisters; marriage in 1950; and her daughters' births. Mrs. M. discusses her father's murder shortly before liberation; experiences with partisans; her children's lack of interest in her experiences; and nightmares of German shootings.

Extent and Medium

2 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.

Related Units of Description

  • Associated material: Elizaveta K. Holocaust testimony [sister] (HVT-3282), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Rules and Conventions

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Process Info

  • compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

People

  • M., Grunia, -- 1924-

Subjects

  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Ukrainian.
  • Mass killings.
  • Hiding.
  • Aid by non-Jews.
  • Forced labor.
  • Mothers and daughters.
  • Sisters.
  • Nightmares.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
  • Escapes.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Video tapes.
  • Women.
  • Survivor-child relations.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Postwar effects.
  • Partisans.
  • False papers.

Places

  • Popivka (Ukraine)
  • Tarashcha (Ukraine)
  • Petrivka (Ukraine)
  • Zvenigorodka (Ukraine)
  • Lysiď¸ a︥nka (Ukraine)
  • Ukraine.

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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