Celina S. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Celina S., who was born into a large Jewish family in Krako?w, Poland. Mrs. S. describes the active Jewish community in Krako?w; spending summers in the town of Oswiecim (Auschwitz); the outbreak of the war; and the Bochnia ghetto, where she worked as a cleaning woman for the Lagerfuh?rer. She relates her escape from the ghetto, aided by non-Jews; her arrest while attempting to cross the border from Slovakia into Hungary; her imprisonment in Kos?ice, where she was registered as a non-Jew; her release from Kos?ice, after which she attempted to escape to Romania and was jailed in Budapest; and her escape, in 1944, to Palestine. Mrs. S. also speaks of the atrocities which she witnessed; her postwar career as a chemical engineer; her marriage and children; and her feelings concerning differences between sabras and survivors.
Extent and Medium
3 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., Celina.
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Jews -- Poland -- Bochnia.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- False papers.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Israel.
Places
- Bochnia (Poland)
- Oświęcim (Poland)
- Kraków (Poland)
- Poland.
- Bochnia ghetto.
- Košice (Slovakia)
- Budapest (Hungary)
- Slovak Republic (Czechoslovakia)
- Slovakia.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- ftamc