Carolyn G. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 0665
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Carolyn G., who was born in Szyd?owiec, Poland in 1926. She recalls attending public school for six years; anti-Semitic vandalism before the war; deportation with her sister and brother in 1942; her sister's selection for gassing; her brother's death from typhus; her severe depression resulting in her selection from which she was saved through the intervention of a co-worker; temporarily improved conditions for a Red Cross inspection; frequent beatings; transport to Bergen-Belsen in 1944, then to Tu?rkheim; the death march to Dachau; Hitler Jugend members shooting inmates; and liberation by American troops the following day. Mrs. G. describes living in the Feldafing displaced persons camp; reunion with a cousin (the only other survivor from her town); marriage in 1948 to another survivor; emigration to the United States in 1949; and her continuing sense of always being alone.

Extent and Medium

1 videocassette

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

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