Lucie H. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Lucie H., who was born in Lublin, Poland. She recalls German invasion; anti-Jewish measures; the shooting of children at the orphanage; deportation with her family to the Majdan Tatarski ghetto in April 1942; sharing food with Majdanek inmates; hiding with her boyfriend's family during the ghetto's liquidation in November 1942; escaping with her brother and boyfriend with assistance from her father; hiding in Lublin; traveling with her brother and boyfriend to the Warsaw ghetto; her marriage; learning her father was killed while attempting to escape; obtaining false papers; escaping from the ghetto with her brother and husband on March 23, 1943; hiding with assistance from non-Jews; arranging for her brother to be sent to Switzerland in July 1943 (she never saw him again); the Polish uprising in September 1944; evacuation as non-Jews to a village; and their liberation by Soviet troops in January 1945. Mrs. H. describes their return to Lublin; learning that no family members had survived; traveling to Vienna in October 1946; and their emigration to the United States. She notes her survival was due to coincidence.
Extent and Medium
3 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)
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
- H., Lucie.
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Brothers and sisters.
- Escapes.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Postwar experiences.
- Marriage in Jewish ghettos.
- Hiding.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- False papers.
- Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw.
- Jews -- Poland -- Majdan Tatarski.
- Child survivors.
- Husband and wife.
Places
- Vienna (Austria)
- Warsaw (Poland) -- History -- Uprising, 1944.
- Majdan Tatarski ghetto.
- Warsaw ghetto.
- Lublin (Poland)
- Poland.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat