Luna K. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 1095
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Luna K., who was born in Krako?w, Poland, in 1926. Mrs. K. vividly portrays her childhood; her father's pro-German sympathies after serving in World War I in the Austrian army on the Russian front; prewar Polish antisemitism; conditions following the German invasion; being forced out of Krako?w to a small village; and a Polish butcher who gave her family extra meat. She recounts being sent with her mother to the Krako?w ghetto; working in a brush factory; losing contact with her father and sister (who were in a logging camp); liquidation of the ghetto; deportation to P?aszo?w in March 1943; witnessing a prisoner forced to hang his own son; narrowly escaping execution; transport to Skarz?ysko-Kamienna Werk C in late 1943; and their work with picric acid. She describes a Jewish foreman's refusal to recognize her illness; hospitalization after a German officer's intercession; transport to a HASAG plant in Leipzig; sabotaging machinery; forced marches around the city; liberation by Soviet troops; and escaping a Soviet soldier's attempt to rape her.

Extent and Medium

4 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

  • K., Luna, -- 1926-

Corporate Bodies

  • Skarżysko-Kamienna (Concentration camp)
  • Hugo Schneider Aktiengesellschaft.
  • Hasag-Leipzig (Concentration camp)
  • Płaszów (Concentration camp)

Subjects

  • Video tapes.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Women.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
  • Forced labor.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • Jews -- Poland -- Kraków.
  • Mothers and daughters.
  • Sabotage.
  • Death marches.
  • Aid by non-Jews.
  • Antisemitism -- Prewar.

Places

  • Poland.
  • Kraków ghetto.
  • Kraków (Poland)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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