Jola H. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Jola H. who was born in 1931 in Leipzig, Germany. She recounts her family's affluence; visiting relatives in Poland; lifestyle changes after the Nuremberg laws; deportation to Poland with her mother in 1938 (her father was in England) because they were Polish citizens; living with relatives in ?o?dz?; her father's arrival in August 1939; moving to Warsaw; German invasion; her father leaving; joining him in Soviet-occupied L?viv; German invasion; her father going to Warsaw; joining him in the Warsaw ghetto; hiding during round-ups; her mother arranging her escape with non-Jews; her rescuer obtaining false papers for her; her mother's escape; living together; hospitalization after being hit by a car; her father's last visit (he perished in Auschwitz); the Polish uprising in Warsaw; deportation to Wroc?aw as Poles; forced factory labor; her mother's appointment as translator which also privileged her and her cousin; liberation by Soviet troops; their kindness; living in Poland for a year; not feeling Jewish; traveling to London with a children's group in 1946; her mother's arrival in 1948; emigration to the United States in 1949; and marriage to an American in 1950. Ms. H. discusses conscious efforts to forget her experiences; only discussing them with her sons when they ask; attributing her survival to her mother; and involvement in the civil rights movement.
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
- H., Jola, -- 1931-
Subjects
- Nuremberg laws.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Child survivors.
- Soviet occupation.
- Postwar experiences.
- Mutual aid.
- Identification (Religion)
- Forced labor.
- False papers.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Hiding.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Escapes.
- Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw.
- Fathers and daughters.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Citizenship -- Germany.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Germany.
Places
- Wrocław (Poland)
- Warsaw (Poland) -- History -- Uprising, 1944.
- Lʹviv (Ukraine)
- Warsaw (Poland)
- London (England)
- Warsaw ghetto.
- Łódź (Poland)
- Leipzig (Germany)
- Germany.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat