Sally H. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
A follow-up, directed videotape testimony of Sally H., whose first testimony was recorded in 1979. She notes the painful nature of digging up memories for the first testimony; continuing to see vivid mental pictures of her painful incidents in the ghetto; being hidden briefly by a Polish neighbor; being chosen not to enter a deportation train and her sisters going with her at her mother's urging; feeling as though "it" was happening to someone else in Skarz?ysko; being kept alive there through her sisters' efforts; random shootings of every tenth person when there was an escape; returning home to Zwolen? after liberation; learning her father and brother had been killed in hiding and a friend had survived but was killed by Poles after liberation; emotional numbness at learning of these deaths; traveling to Cze?stochowa, then the American zone in Germany due to Polish antisemitic violence; not sharing her experience when she came to the United States after Americans compared being deprived of nylon stockings to her experience; gradually sharing her experiences with her children; continuing nightmares; and increasing intensity of her memories and fears as she grows older.
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
- H., Sally, -- 1928-2014.
Corporate Bodies
- Skarżysko-Kamienna (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Postwar experiences.
- Antisemitism -- Postwar.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Mutual aid.
- Jewish ghettos.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Sisters.
- Child survivors.
- Nightmares.
- Hiding.
- Aid by non-Jews.
Places
- Zwoleń (Radom, Poland)
- Częstochowa (Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat