Kay F. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 1155
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Kay F., who was born in Sieradz, Poland in 1919. She recalls her father's career as a physician; attending university in Krako?w; completing her last year at home due to increasing antisemitism; German invasion; fleeing with her family to relatives in ?o?dz?; returning to Sieradz; her father's brief imprisonment; traveling with her parents to Sandomierz; deportation with her family and her fiance? to Cze?stochowa concentration camp; slave labor in the HASAG factory; marriage; posing as her father's wife to assist him in providing medical care; transfer to Bergen-Belsen in January 1945; selection for a transport; escaping during an Allied bombing; hiding in a forest, then a nearby village; liberation by United States troops; recovering in Landsberg displaced persons camp; learning her parents and brother were killed; reunion with her husband in Stuttgart; assistance from the Red Cross; working to assist orphans; and emigrating to join relatives in the United States.

Extent and Medium

2 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

  • F., Kay, -- 1919-

Corporate Bodies

  • Częstochowa (Concentration camp)
  • Landsberg am Lech (Displaced persons camp)
  • Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
  • Hugo Schneider Aktiengesellschaft.
  • International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.

Subjects

  • Postwar experiences.
  • Escapes.
  • Forced labor.
  • Husband and wife.
  • Concentration camp inmates -- Family relationships.
  • Antisemitism -- Prewar.
  • Refugee camps.
  • Marriage in concentration camps.
  • Hiding.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Video tapes.
  • Women.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Fathers and daughters.
  • Mothers and daughters.

Places

  • Sieradz (Poland)
  • Poland.
  • Łódź (Poland)
  • Kraków (Poland)
  • Stuttgart (Germany)
  • Sandomierz (Poland)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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