Sally S. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Sally S., who was born in Przemys?lany, Poland in 1923. She describes her close and large immediate and extended family; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in 1941; anti-Jewish measures; the Judenrat organizing forced labor; mass killing of men, including her father and uncle; incarceration in a forced labor camp; obtaining permission from the Judenrat to return to the ghetto; her mother's death; hiding with her brothers in a bunker during the ghetto's liquidation in May 1943; escaping with them to the woods; building bunkers; assistance from her sister who was hidden by non-Jews; joining partisans after a massacre (during which her brothers were killed); and liberation by Soviet troops in June 1944. Mrs. S. relates returning to Przemys?lany with her sister; traveling to Ternopil?, then to Katowice; joining her sister in a kibbutz in Sosnowiec; moving to Krako?w; marriage in Breslau; fleeing with her husband and sister via Frankfurt to the Bad Reichenhall displaced persons camp; and emigration to the United States in July 1949. She discusses her American family's lack of interest in her experiences; her inner suffering and inability to convey what she went through in words; and the exhilaration of her visits to Israel.
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
- S., Sally, -- 1923-
Corporate Bodies
- Bad Reichenhall (Displaced persons camp)
Subjects
- Postwar effects.
- Postwar experiences.
- Partisans.
- Bunkers.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Mutual aid.
- Forests.
- Hiding.
- Jews -- Poland -- Przemyślany.
- Soviet occupation.
- Mass killings.
- Jewish councils.
- Refugee camps.
- Sisters.
- Brothers and sisters.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Forced labor.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Kraków (Poland)
- Wrocław (Poland)
- Przemyślany (Poland)
- Przemyślany ghetto.
- Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie, Poland)
- Katowice (Poland)
- Ternopilʹ (Ukraine)
- Peremyshli︠a︡ny (Ukraine)
- Poland.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat