Susan S. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 1234
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Susan S., who was born in Zalishchyky, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1923, one of three children. She recounts attending public school; antisemitic harassment; Soviet occupation; attending business school in another town; German invasion; returning home; hiding with her family during a mass killing; deportation to the Tolstoye ghetto in September 1942; forced labor in the fields; meeting her future husband, Paul S.; escaping a mass shooting with Paul S., in which her parents and nine-year-old sister were killed; hiding with Paul S., his brother, and others; Ukrainian partisans killing Paul S.'s brother; a friend's capture and torture; being hidden by a Polish farm family; liberation by Soviet troops; traveling to Chernivt?s?i ; their marriage; returning to Poland; traveling to Windsheim displaced persons camp; her son's birth in 1946; and emigration to the United States in 1949, where her uncle and brother lived. Ms. S. discusses sharing her experiences with her son.

Extent and Medium

1 videocassette

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.

Related Units of Description

  • Related material: Paul S. Holocaust testimony husband, Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Rules and Conventions

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Process Info

  • compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

People

  • S., Susan, -- 1923-

Subjects

  • Jews -- Ukraine -- Tovste (Ternopilʹsʹka oblastʹ)
  • Husband and wife.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • Women.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Video tapes.
  • Survivor-child relations.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Aid by non-Jews.
  • Hiding.
  • Mass killings.
  • Soviet occupation.
  • Antisemitism -- Prewar.
  • Refugee camps.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Ukraine.
  • Escapes.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
  • Forced labor.

Places

  • Tolstoye ghetto.
  • Windsheim (Germany : Refugee camp)
  • Chernivt︠s︡i (Ukraine)
  • Zalishchyky (Ukraine)
  • Poland.

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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