Freda T. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Freda T., who was born in Lask, Poland, the oldest of seven children. She describes her large, extended family; their orthodoxy; moving to ?o?dz?; antisemitic boycotts; German invasion in September 1939; her mother and siblings returning to Lask (she remained with her father); ghettoization in 1940; her mother's return; forced factory labor; hiding during round-ups; her mother's and sister's deportation; receiving a letter from her mother; pervasive starvation and death; H?ayim Rumkowski's speech in August 1944 when the ghetto was liquidated; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her father; remaining with a friend; transfer to Ravensbru?ck, then Mu?hlhausen; slave labor in a munitions factory; a woman giving her extra soup; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; hospitalization; losing her will to live; liberation by British troops; hospitalization; transfer to Malmo?, Sweden; kind treatment by the Swedes; marriage to a survivor in 1947 in Huskvarna; her daughter's birth; emigration to the United States; and the births of two more children. Ms. T. notes she is the sole survivor of her extended family of over ninety; the importance to her survival of faith (she remains orthodox) and kindnesses from friends and strangers; and sharing her experiences with her children.
Extent and Medium
3 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
- Rumkowski, Mordecai Ḥayim.
- T., Freda.
Corporate Bodies
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Friendship.
- Concentration camps -- Psychological aspects.
- Faith.
- Forced labor.
- Jews -- Poland -- Łódź.
- Jewish ghettos.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Postwar experiences.
- Hospitals in concentration camps.
- Mutual aid.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Lask (Poland)
- Łódź (Poland)
- Malmö (Sweden)
- Huskvarna (Sweden)
- Łódź ghetto.
- Mühlhausen (Erfurt, Germany : Concentration camp)
- Poland.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat