Ada V. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Ada V., who was born in 1929 in Warsaw, Poland, the only child in an affluent home. She recounts attending a Jewish school; frequent, pleasant visits to her mother's family in Paris; German invasion; Germans beating her father; his escape to Czyżew in the Soviet zone; being smuggled with her mother to join him; attending a Soviet school; participating in Komsomol; her father enlisting in the Soviet military (they never saw him again); German invasion; ghettoization; her mother paying smugglers to bring them to the Warsaw ghetto; she, her mother, and grandmother obtaining jobs in a brush factory; round-up of her mother (she never saw her again); hiding with her grandmother during round-ups; her uncle obtaining false papers for her; escaping over the ghetto wall; living with non-Jews in Rembertów; her aunt moving her to a Polish family for whom she babysat and who hid many other Jews; attending church; her aunt's weekly visits; fleeing during the 1944 Polish uprising; deportation as a Pole to Pruszków; forced labor on a farm in Oschatz; assistance from a Polish admirer; liberation by Soviet troops; Poles she worked with offering to adopt her; returning home; reunion with an aunt and uncle; living in Kalisz; attending university; summers in Ciechocinek; marriage; and emigration to Israel. Ms. V. discusses identifying a Jewish girl who had been hidden with her so she could be returned to her father; continuing contact with the woman who hid her (she was honored by Yad Vashem); hoarding food due to her experiences; and ghetto songs that she sings.
Extent and Medium
5 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
- V., Ada, -- 1929-
Corporate Bodies
- Vsesoi︠u︡znyĭ leninskiĭ kommunisticheskiĭ soi︠u︡z molodezhi. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82052322
Subjects
- Soviet occupation.
- Child survivors.
- Hiding.
- False papers.
- Postwar experiences.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Postwar effects.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96005877
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148359
- Jewish ghettos. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95007077
- Escapes. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85044783
- Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw.
- Jews -- Poland -- Czyżew-Osada.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Songs and music. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105742
- Forced labor. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453
- Holocaust survivors. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061527
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061518
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148465
- Video tapes. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143214
- Women. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85147274
Places
- Kalisz (Poland) -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80113269
- Ciechocinek (Poland) -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82167582
- Czyżew-Osada ghetto.
- Warsaw ghetto.
- Poland. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79131071
- Warsaw (Poland) -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79018894
- Paris (France) -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79058874
- Czyżew-Osada (Poland)
- Rembertów (Warsaw, Poland) -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86098296
- Pruszków (Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland)
- Warsaw (Poland) -- History -- Uprising, 1944. -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85145298
- Oschatz (Germany) -- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80159195
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat