Ludmila P. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Ludmila P., who was born in Kishinev, Romania in 1920 and raised in ?owicz, Poland. She recounts her father's death in 1934; studying medicine in Vienna in 1937; returning to Poland after the Anschluss; refusal of admission to the University of Vilna because she was Jewish; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; deportation with her mother to Krako?w; marriage; her mother's deportation to the Warsaw ghetto (Mrs. P. visited her there); working at a munitions factory; transfer with her husband to P?aszo?w in March 1943; constant fear, killings, and public hangings; arranging to be on Schindler's list with her husband for transfer to Czechoslovakia; her husband's departure with the men for Brne?nec; deportation with the women and children to Auschwitz; their transfer to Brne?nec three weeks later; and reunion with her husband. Mrs. P. describes the humane atmosphere at Schindler's factory; his wife's assisting her sick friend; the prisoners honoring Schindler's birthday; liberation by Soviet troops; traveling with her husband to Munich; their emigration to the United States in 1947; and a trip with her husband and daughter to Poland in 1972.
Extent and Medium
2 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
- Schindler, Oskar, -- 1908-1974.
- P., Ludmila, -- 1920-
Corporate Bodies
- Brunnlitz (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Płaszów (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Kishinev (Moldova)
- Postwar experiences.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Mutual aid.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Husband and wife.
- Forced labor.
- Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw.
- Jews -- Poland -- Kraków.
- Jewish ghettos.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
Places
- Warsaw ghetto.
- Austria -- History -- Anschluss, 1938.
- Munich (Germany)
- Kraków (Poland)
- Vienna (Austria)
- Łowicz (Poland)
- Chisināu (Moldova)
- Romania.
- Kraków ghetto.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat