Sally R. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Sally R., who was born in Be?dzin, Poland in 1923, one of six sisters. She recounts antisemitic harassment; German invasion in 1939; expropriation of her father's business; his death; one sister's deportation; communications from her from Gru?nberg; marriage in 1943; ghettoization; living with her husband's family and one sister; forced factory labor; hiding in a bunker during round-ups; deportation of her mother, other sisters, and sister's child (they did not survive); arranging to join her sister in Gru?nberg; transfer with her husband and sister to the Sosnowiec ghetto, then Gru?nberg; slave labor in a textile factory; occasionally seeing her husband; hospitalization; her sisters' visits; assistance from the prisoner doctor; her husband's transfer in 1944; a death march in January 1945 to Helmbrechts, Zwodau, then toward the Czech border; briefly escaping with one sister; another escape with her sisters and two friends; hiding with a Czech farmer, then a woman in town for three weeks; liberation by United States troops; Red Cross assistance; hospitalization; traveling with her sisters to Plzen?, Prague, and Ostrava; learning her husband had survived; reunion with him in Be?dzin; living in Budapest for nine months; joining her sisters in Germany; and emigration to the United States in 1949.
Extent and Medium
2 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
- R., Sally, -- 1923-
Corporate Bodies
- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
Subjects
- Mutual aid.
- Hiding.
- Postwar experiences.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Marriage in Jewish ghettos.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Hospitals in concentration camps.
- Bunkers.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Jews -- Poland -- Będzin.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Sisters.
- Death marches.
- Escapes.
- Child survivors.
- Jews -- Poland -- Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie)
- Jewish ghettos.
- Forced labor.
- Husband and wife.
Places
- Zwodau (Czechoslovakia : Concentration camp)
- Grünberg (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Helmbrechts (Germany : Concentration camp)
- Będzin ghetto.
- Sosnowiec ghetto.
- Ostrava (Czech Republic)
- Prague (Czech Republic)
- Germany.
- Budapest (Hungary)
- Poland.
- Plzeň (Czech Republic)
- Będzin (Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat