Pnina G. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Pnina G., who was born in Nowy Dwor Mazoweicki, Poland in 1923, the youngest of eight children. She recounts attending a Jewish school; participating in Maccabi; anti-Jewish violence; German invasion; her family joining a brother in Warsaw; her parents and several siblings returning home; ghettoization; smuggling goods to her father in 1941; working with her brothers in a furniture factory; eating at a Joint soup kitchen; caring for the child of a rich family, from whom she obtained food for her family; smuggling herself into the Nowy Dwor ghetto; leaving to stay with cousins in Chojnowo when she suspected a round-up (her parents and siblings would not join her); returning to her brothers in the Warsaw ghetto, with help from non-Jews; working in a factory with her brother; asking a fellow-worker to join his Hashomer Hatzair group resulting in contact with Hersz Berlinski, a resistance leader; joining the Jewish resistance (ZOB) with her brother and cousin; deportation of another brother, his wife, and child; escaping from a round-up; being trained as fighters by Marek Edelman; building a bunker; attacking Germans in April 1943; moving from bunker to bunker; her brother being wounded (he did not survive); escaping through the sewers with Zivya Lubetkin and Haim Frymer (her future husband); Śimḥah Rotem and two non-Jews transporting them to nearby forests; joining Soviet partisans; building bunkers; receiving funds and supplies from Lubetkin and Yitzhak Zuckerman (they remained in Warsaw); joining the Polish uprising in Warsaw as non-Jews; capture by the Germans; escaping; joining Armia Ludowa (Polish partisans); liberation by Soviet troops; learning all her family were killed; illegal emigration to Palestine in 1945, with assistance from Lubetkin; marriage to Haim Frymer; and the births of two children. Ms. G. notes suffering from the loss of her family, as do her children.
Extent and Medium
6 videocassettes
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This testimony is open with permission.
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People
- Berlinski, Hersz.
- Edelman, Marek, -- 1919-2009.
- Lubetkin, Zivya.
- Frymer, Haim.
- G., Pnina, -- 1923-
- Rotem, Śimḥah.
- Zuckerman, Yitzhak, -- 1915-1981.
Corporate Bodies
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
- Maccabi World Union.
- Poland. -- Armia Ludowa.
- Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa (Poland)
- World Hashomer Hatzair.
Subjects
- Jewish ghettos.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Jews -- Poland -- Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki.
- Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- Hiding.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Forests.
- Bunkers.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance -- Poland.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Escapes.
- Partisans.
- Postwar experiences.
- Postwar effects.
Places
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Chojnowo (Poland)
- Warsaw (Poland) -- History -- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943.
- Warsaw (Poland) -- History -- Uprising of 1944.
- Poland.
- Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki (Poland)
- Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki ghetto.
- Warsaw ghetto.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat