Dina G. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Dina G., who was born in Odesa, Ukraine in 1919. She recalls constant poverty and hardships due to "five year plans"; the focus on education; all religions being forbidden; completing four of five years of medical school when Germany invaded in June 1941; fleeing east; strafing by German planes; living in Rastov for two months; traveling with her parents to the Chinese border; receiving a temporary diploma so she could practice medicine; military mobilization; training in Moscow; participating in the battle of Stalingrad; working as a front line surgeon; meeting her future husband in Berlin; realizing, after the war, that almost all the Jews were gone; her daughter's birth; her husband's death from war wounds; living with her parents in Odesa; pervasive antisemitism; emigrating to Canada after her daughter's education was completed in 1977; and participating in Jewish organizations and study groups. Dr. G. shows photographs.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- G., Dina, -- 1919-
Subjects
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Antisemitism -- Postwar.
- Stalingrad, Battle of, Volgograd, Russia, 1942-1943 -- Personal narrative.
- Postwar experiences.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Soviet.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
Places
- Ukraine.
- Odesa (Ukraine)
- Moscow (Russia)
- Rastov (Ukraine)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat