Hilda G. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Hilda G., who was born in Germany (presently Lithuania) and raised in Memel (presently Klaipe?da). She recalls her father's early death; her brother's emigration to Palestine in 1939; German invasion; fleeing to relatives in Kaunas; German invasion; ghettoization; forced labor with her sister at the airport; exchanging possessions with peasants for food; an older Wehrmacht soldier providing them with easier work and extra food; transfer to Stutthof with her mother and sister; transfer to a slave labor camp; separation from her sister (she never saw her again); her mother freezing to death on a death march; liberation by Soviet troops; a long hospital recuperation; communication from her brother through the Red Cross; traveling to ?o?dz?, then Munich; reunion with an uncle; and emigration to the United States two years later. Ms. G. notes thirty-five close family members were killed during the Holocaust. She shows photographs
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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Process Info
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People
- G., Hilda.
Corporate Bodies
- Stutthof (Concentration camp)
- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
Subjects
- Postwar experiences.
- Mutual aid.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Death marches.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Sisters.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Lithuania -- Kaunas.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
Places
- Munich (Germany)
- Łódź (Poland)
- Kaunas (Lithuania)
- Klaipėda (Lithuania)
- Germany.
- Kovno ghetto.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat