Golda S. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Golda S., who was born in Sokal?, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1922, one of eight children. She recounts a weaving apprenticeship in L?viv; increased antisemitism in the mid 1930s; Soviet occupation of Sokal? in 1939; German invasion in 1941; anti-Jewish violence and restrictions; ghettoization; escaping from a deportation train; returning home; being hidden in a monastery; leaving when her life was in danger; encountering a woman on a train who offered her a job in Krako?w; discovery and incarceration in P?aszo?w; escaping four weeks later; obtaining false papers; working in Braunau; and saving orphaned children as the war ended. Mrs. S. notes she never lost faith in God and survived due to her faith and sense of purpose.
Extent and Medium
4 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
- S., Golda, -- 1922-
Corporate Bodies
- Płaszów (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- False papers.
- Soviet occupation.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Hiding.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Jews -- Ukraine -- Sokalʹ.
- Escapes.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Faith.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Jewish ghettos.
Places
- Sokalʹ (Ukraine)
- Poland.
- Kraków (Poland)
- Lʹviv (Ukraine)
- Sokalʹ ghetto.
- Braunau am Inn (Austria)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat