Ann C. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Ann C., who was born in approximately 1925, the oldest of four children, and raised in K?obuck, Poland. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; attending school; her father's beating by antisemites; German invasion; separation from a family friend who was taking her to a nearby farm; returning home; obtaining work on a German farm; the owners warning her of round-ups; her father's deportation (they never saw him again); ghettoization; hiding with her future husband and his sister during the ghetto's liquidation in June 1942; marriage; entering K?obuck concentration camp; her two sisters and brother joining her; a round-up; escaping with several others; capture; one escapee's execution; deportation to Blechammer; transfer with her sisters to Langenbielau; slave labor in a factory; sharing food with her sisters; her sister-in-law's privileged position in the kitchen (she shared extra food with them); liberation by Soviet troops; reunion with her husband; locating her brother and an uncle; her daughter's birth in Weiden displaced persons camp in 1946; and emigration to the United States in 1949. Ms. C. discusses the killing of her parents and many other relatives, and her postwar fears of not being able to live normally, or raise normal children.
Extent and Medium
3 videocassettes
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- C., Ann, -- 1925?-
Corporate Bodies
- Langenbielau (Concentration camp)
- Blechhammer E/3 (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Child survivors.
- Refugee camps.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Escapes.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Sisters.
- Brothers and sisters.
- Mutual aid.
- Marriage in Jewish ghettos.
- Postwar effects.
- Postwar experiences.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Concentration camp inmates -- Family relationships.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Poland -- Kłobuck.
- Husband and wife.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Forced labor.
Places
- Poland.
- Kłobuck ghetto.
- Kłobuck (Poland)
- Kłobuck (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Weiden (Germany : Refugee camp)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat