Sally C. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Sally C., who was born in Radom, Poland in 1928, the youngest of eight children. She recalls German invasion; her mother persuading her to volunteer for forced labor to avoid deportations; learning some siblings were deported; transfer with two sisters to Ostrowiec, then to Auschwitz, a year later, in June 1944; male prisoners whom they knew throwing them food; transfer six months later to Gebhardsdorf; a death march to Georgenthal; escape and recapture; liberation; returning to Poland seeking relatives; traveling to Czechoslovakia upon finding no one, then to Dachau upon learning their brother was there; and her emigration to the United States in 1947. Ms. C. discusses teaching herself English; earning her college degree; visiting her sister in Israel in 1953; speaking in schools about her experiences; and her children's pride in her giving testimony.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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This testimony is open with permission.
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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
- C., Sally, -- 1928-
Corporate Bodies
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Ostrowiec (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Mutual aid.
- Child survivors.
- Sisters.
- Escapes.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Postwar experiences.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Poland -- Radom (Województwo Mazowieckie)
- Forced labor.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Radom (Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland)
- Radom ghetto.
- Georgenthal (Germany : Concentration camp)
- Gebhardsdorf (Poland : Concentration camp)
- (Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland : Concentration camp)
- Dachau (Germany)
- Czechoslovakia.
- Poland.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat