Rebecca P. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Rebecca P., who was born in Poland in 1920, one of five children. She recalls attending a village school; living with an aunt in order to attend school in Zamość; German invasion then withdrawal a week later, followed by Soviet invasion, their withdrawal, then German occupation; one brother leaving with the Soviets; another hiding with his wife and child as non-Jews; escaping with her mother from a round-up; hiding in the woods; neighbors bringing them food; round-up to Izbica; ghettoization; marriage; her husband's killing two months later; her mother's deportation; escaping with others to the woods; hiding in attics in houses of three different Poles for thirty months; five months prior to liberation living openly as a servant (the others remained in the attic); escaping with the others to Zamość; liberation by Soviet troops; living with returning survivors; marriage to one three months later; traveling to Wrocław; her daughter's birth; assistance from UNRRA; living in the Bergen-Belsen and Eschwegge displaced persons camps; her husband's severe illness; his hospitalization in Göttingen; visits from two brothers who had survived; and emigration to the United States thirty months later.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette
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., Rebecca, -- 1920-
Corporate Bodies
- DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen.
- United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
Subjects
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- Escapes.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Hiding.
- Refugee camps.
- Aid by non-Jews
- Marriage in Jewish ghettos.
- Husband -- Death.
- Postwar experiences.
- Forests.
Places
- Poland.
- Zamość (Poland)
- Izbica Lubelska (Poland)
- Wrocław (Poland)
- Göttingen (Germany)
- Eschwege (Germany : Refugee camp)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat