Rose T. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Rose T., who was born in Poland and raised in an orthodox family. She recalls attending high school in Lublin; returning home for the summer in 1939; German invasion; deportation with her family to a farm; her younger sister's escape (she never saw her again); her father's and her younger siblings' escape with assistance from the camp Kommandant (she learned later they were denounced and killed); escaping from Che?m to Lublin; acquiring false papers with assistance from a Polish family; deportation as a non-Jewish slave laborer to Germany; her denouncement and imprisonment in Hannover, then Berlin; transfer to Auschwitz in 1943; working near the crematoria; escaping with her friend from the death march; and looking for her family after liberation. Mrs. T. recounts continuing to pose as a non-Jew after the war; how insignificant wealth became; marriage in Israel; adjusting to the United States; and writing a book about her experiences.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
Conditions Governing Access
This testimony is open with permission.
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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
- T., Rose.
Corporate Bodies
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Postwar experiences.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Hiding.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Forced labor.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Death marches.
- False papers.
- Escapes.
- Poland
Places
- Berlin (Germany)
- Hannover (Germany)
- Lublin (Poland)
- CheĹm (Lublin, Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat