Lore P. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Lore P., who was born in Gelsenkirchen, Germany in 1921. She recounts attending a Jewish school; babysitting for a Jewish family in Dortmund; her brother's emigration to Palestine in 1936; Kristallnacht; her father's arrest and release one week later; attending school in Berlin in 1940; working in a factory; returning home in 1941; working in Essen; deportation with her parents to the Rīga ghetto in January 1942; encountering an uncle and cousins; construction work with her mother at the airport; separation from her parents (she never saw them again); transfer to Spilwe; slave labor for AEG; trying to help her uncle (he died); brief hospitalization; observing a child's birth (the baby was discarded in the trash); ship transfer to Stutthof; transfer to Toruń; sabotaging products in the generator factory; a death march to Bydgoszcz; liberation by Soviet troops; assistance from Jewish soldiers; traveling to Łódź; marriage; returning to her hometown; reunion with two aunts; and emigration with her husband and two children to Israel in 1948, then to the United States in 1955. Ms. P. notes she has much more to tell but that it would be "without end."
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
People
- P., Lore, -- 1921-
Corporate Bodies
- Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft (Germany)
- Stutthof (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Postwar experiences.
- Hospitals in Jewish ghettos.
- Childbirth in concentration camps.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Crystal Night, 1938.
- Death marches.
- Child survivors.
- Concentration camps -- Psychological aspects.
- Sabotage.
- Fathers and daughters.
- Concentration camp inmates -- Family relationships.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Forced labor.
- Jews -- Latvia -- Rīga.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Gelsenkirchen (Germany)
- Dortmund (Germany)
- Germany.
- Spilwe (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Rīga ghetto.
- Israel.
- Toruń (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Rīga (Latvia : Concentration camp)
- Essen (Germany)
- Berlin (Germany)
- Łódź (Poland)
- Bydgoszcz (Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat