Jean F. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 0966
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Jean F. who was born in Sosnowiec, Poland in 1924. She recalls a happy childhood despite prevalent antisemitism; warnings from German refugees; German invasion in 1939; immediate arrests and shootings of Jews; ghettoization; her selection for transport to Gleiwitz in March 1942; slave labor in an ammunition factory; a death march to a train in January 1945; and escape from the train in Czechoslovakia. Mrs. F. describes a village woman's efforts to hide them; arrest and imprisonment in Prague; transfer to Theresienstadt; and liberation by the Red Cross. She recounts her reunion with her sister; their escape to Germany; residing in Pocking and Landsberg displaced persons camps; marriage; her daughter's birth in 1949; her brother-in-law's death; emigration to the United States in 1950; and adopting her nephew after her sister's death.

Extent and Medium

2 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

  • F., Jean, -- 1924-

Corporate Bodies

  • Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
  • International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
  • Landsberg am Lech (Displaced persons camp)

Subjects

  • Child survivors.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Aid by non-Jews.
  • Antisemitism -- Prewar.
  • Mutual aid.
  • Concentration camp inmates -- Escapes.
  • Death marches.
  • Refugee camps.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
  • Jews -- Poland -- Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie)
  • Forced labor.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • Women.
  • Video tapes.
  • Holocaust survivors.

Places

  • Pocking (Passau, Germany : Refugee camp)
  • Sosnowiec ghetto.
  • Prague (Czech Republic)
  • Gleiwitz (Poland : Concentration camp)
  • Poland.
  • Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie, Poland)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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