Krystyna S. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Krystyna S., a non-Jew who was born in Poland in 1928. She discusses the bombing of Warsaw and her separation from her father at the outbreak of the war; life in Warsaw with her mother and younger sister; and the fact that the concentration camps were common knowledge. She tells of her evacuation from her house; her recollections of the Warsaw ghetto uprising; and her deportation to Bergen-Belsen, where she and her mother worked as slave laborers. She recounts her life in Bergen-Belsen; liberation; her postwar return to Bergen-Belsen and other displaced persons camps to look for family members; and the continuing psychological effects of her wartime experiences.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)
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
- S., Krystyna, -- 1928-
Corporate Bodies
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Psychological aspects.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Concentration camp inmates -- Non-Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Polish.
- Forced labor.
- Video tapes.
- Concentration camp inmates.
- Mothers and daughters.
Places
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Poland.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat