Margot S. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Margot S., who was born in Berlin, Germany to Polish parents. She recounts attending a Jewish school; losing her job in 1934 due to anti-Jewish measures and in 1938 after Kristallnacht; her parents' return to Poland (her five siblings all emigrated); joining them in Tarno?w in 1939; ghettoization; forced factory labor; hiding with her future husband during round-ups; seeing her sister and niece for the last time; incarceration in P?aszo?w; selection for Schindler's factory; transfer to Auschwitz, then Brne?nec; reunion with her future husband; liberation by Soviet troops; returning to Poland; and learning no family members had survived. She tells of her emigration to France; her child's birth; and emigration to the United States.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette (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.
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- S., Margot.
- Schindler, Oskar, -- 1908-1974.
Corporate Bodies
- Brünnlitz (Concentration camp)
- Płaszów (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- Forced labor.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Poland -- Tarnów (Województwo Małopolskie)
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Postwar experiences.
- Crystal Night, 1938.
- Hiding.
- Mutual aid.
- Refugees, Jewish.
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
Places
- France.
- Tarnów ghetto.
- Berlin (Germany)
- Tarnów (Województwo Małopolskie, Poland)
- Germany.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat