Hanna P. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Hanna P., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1928. She recalls her family's affluent life; her brother and father reporting for military service before German invasion; German occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions and food scarcity; learning her father and brother were alive and fleeing to the Soviet zone; using false papers to join them in Soviet-occupied Bia?ystok; moving to Orsha; attending Russian school; fleeing east after the German invasion; her father working as a bookkeeper on a collective farm near the Urals; her brother's draft; moving to Ukraine near the war's end; returning to ?o?dz?; learning her brother had survived; their reunion; realizing almost everyone else was dead; assistance from the Joint in traveling to Germany; living in a displaced persons camp; emigration to Mexico; marriage; and eventually living in the United States. Mrs. P. notes she discussed her experiences with her children and her father wrote a book about their war years. She shows photographs.
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
- P., Hanna, -- 1928-
Corporate Bodies
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
Subjects
- Soviet occupation.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- False papers.
- Child survivors.
- Refugee camps.
- Refugees, Jewish.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Soviet Union.
- Orsha (Belarus)
- Białystok (Poland)
- Poland.
- Łódź (Poland)
- Mexico.
- Ural Mountains Region (Russia)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat