Ann F. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Ann F., who was born in 1925, in Zdun?ska Wola, Poland. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; attending a private Jewish school; German invasion; fleeing east; returning home; ghettoization; her father's Polish friends bringing them food; a public hanging; liquidation of the ghetto in 1942; separation from her family (she never saw them again); a suicide in the cattle train transfer to the ?o?dz? ghetto; living with a cousin; a friend's family sharing food with her; transfer to Cze?stochowa in 1943; slave labor in a munitions factory; meeting her future husband; an older friend caring for her; transfer to Ravensbru?ck, Burgau, and Tu?rkheim; a death march to Allach; liberation by United States troops in spring 1945; living in Feldafing displaced persons camp, with a cousin in Munich, and in Landsberg displaced persons camp; reunion with her boyfriend; marriage in 1946; her daughter's birth in 1947; and emigration to the United States in 1951. Ms. F. discusses difficulties sleeping and nervousness resulting from her experiences, and sharing her story with her daughter.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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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.
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- F., Ann, -- 1925-
Corporate Bodies
- Częstochowa (Concentration camp)
- Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
- Türkheim (Concentration camp)
- Allach (Concentration camp)
- Burgau (Concentration camp)
- Landsberg am Lech (Displaced persons camp)
- Feldafing (Displaced persons camp)
Subjects
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Jews -- Poland -- Łódź.
- Forced labor.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Poland -- Zduńska Wola.
- Refugee camps.
- Death marches.
- Suicide.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Postwar effects.
- Mutual aid.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Child survivors.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Postwar experiences.
Places
- Poland.
- Łódź ghetto.
- Zduńska Wola ghetto.
- Munich (Germany)
- Zduńska Wola (Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat