Dana S. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Dana S., who was born in L?viv, Ukraine (then Poland) in 1935. She recalls having a governess (her parents were both lawyers); the beginning of war; Soviet occupation; her father hiding from military draft; his eventual draft and return home; German invasion; ghettoization; hiding during round-ups; her mother hiding her with a Christian former neighbor; their returning her after a week; her father obtaining false papers for her and her mother (as a male, he thought he would jeopardize them); seeing her father for the last time; going by train to Zakliko?w; living as Catholics; and learning of hidden Jews nearby who were reported and killed. Ms. S. discusses several incidents of almost being found out; her self-confidence resulting from her war experiences; believing that being Jewish was bad, but attaining pride in her Jewishness after some time; and a scar on her finger which reminds her of her father.
Extent and Medium
2 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
- S., Dana, -- 1935-
Subjects
- Child survivors.
- False papers.
- Mutual aid.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Hiding.
- Postwar experiences.
- Postwar effects.
- Escapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Jews -- Ukraine -- Lʹviv.
- Identification (Religion)
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Jewish ghettos.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
Places
- Lʹvov ghetto.
- Lʹviv (Ukraine)
- Zaklików (Poland)
- Poland.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat