Cyla S. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Cyla S., who was born in Pruz?h?any, Poland in 1914. She recounts her father's death when she was twelve; antisemitic harassment; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion; ghettoization; forced labor in a kitchen; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her family, with the exception of one sister; her sister's hospitalization after a beating; sharing bread; hospitalization for malaria; a prisoner saving her from a selection; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; liberation by British troops; convalescing in Holland; living in Feldafing displaced persons camp; marriage; emigration to the United States; and the births of her daughter and grandchildren.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- S., Cyla, -- 1914-
Corporate Bodies
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Postwar experiences.
- Hospitals in concentration camps.
- Mutual aid.
- Soviet occupation.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Refugee camps.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Forced labor.
- Sisters.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Belarus -- Pruz︠h︡any.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
Places
- Netherlands.
- Pruz︠h︡any (Belarus)
- Poland.
- Feldafing (Germany : Refugee camp)
- Pruz︠h︡any ghetto.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat