Dina G. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Dina G., who was born in Zolochiv, Poland in 1921, one of four children. She recalls her family's Zionism; Soviet occupation in 1939; her older brother's draft into the Soviet military (she never saw him again); German invasion; a mass killing of Jews; round-up with her mother, sister-in-law, and infant nephew (her father and brother hid); a soldier brutally killing her nephew; removal from the deportation train by a German solider; returning home; forced labor in a nearby camp; meeting her future husband there; bringing her father and brother food; ghettoization; a mass killing which included her brother and father (she found their clothes while working); her fiance?'s relatives bribing a peasant to take them out of the camp and hide them in a hole in their barn; liberation by Soviet troops thirteen months later; visiting the mass grave where her father and brother were killed (body parts were evident); marriage; traveling to ?o?dz?; her daughter's birth; traveling through Czechoslovakia to Deggendorf displaced persons camp; and emigration to the United States in June 1946 to join her father's siblings. Mrs. G. discusses fears and nightmares resulting from her experiences; being the sole survivor of her family; and sharing her story with her children.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette
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People
- G., Dina, -- 1921-
Corporate Bodies
- Deggendorf (Displaced persons camp)
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- Escapes.
- Forced labor.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Ukraine -- Zolochiv.
- Nightmares.
- Refugee camps.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Husband and wife.
- Mass killings.
- Postwar experiences.
- Postwar effects.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Mutual aid.
- Hiding.
- Soviet occupation.
Places
- Zolochiv (Lʹvivsʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine)
- Poland.
- Łódź (Poland)
- Czechoslovakia.
- Zolochiv ghetto.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat