Gunia P. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Gunia P., who was born in Hrubieszów, Poland in 1915. She recalls German invasion; ghettoization; receiving food from a Polish friend; her four year old child's murder by the Germans; incarceration with her mother in Budzyń; receiving bread from her husband; their transfer to Majdanek; slave labor sorting clothing; assistance from her husband during a forced march to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her husband upon arrival; receiving medicine from a Polish woman and extra bread from her mother when she was ill; having blood drawn involuntarily; transport to Bergen-Belsen, then Theresienstadt; witnessing cannibalism; and liberation by the Soviet troops. Mrs. P. remembers learning her brother had been killed; traveling to Frankfurt; reunion with her husband; living at Zeilsheim displaced persons camp; emigrating to the United States with assistance from HIAS and the Joint; being told no one wanted to hear about survivor experiences; nightmares about piles of corpses in Bergen-Belsen; and testifying at a war crime trial in Hannover. She shows photographs.
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.
Rules and Conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- P., Gunia, -- 1915-
Corporate Bodies
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Majdanek (Concentration camp)
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- Zeilsheim (Displaced persons camp)
- Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
- HIAS (Agency)
- Budzyń (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Postwar experiences.
- Postwar effects.
- Husband and wife.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Cannibalism.
- Nightmares.
- Refugee camps.
- War crime trials -- Germany -- Hannover.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Mutual aid.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- Forced labor.
- Children -- Death.
- Jews -- Poland -- Hrubieszów.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Poland.
- Hrubieszów (Poland)
- Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
- Hrubieszów ghetto.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat