Jean S. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Jean S., who was born in 1928 in Rejowiec, Poland. She recalls attending Polish school where Jewish children were taunted; German invasion; fleeing with her family to the Russian occupied area; journey by train to the Ural Mountains; their return to Soviet-occupied Poland; travel by freight train for weeks to a Siberian labor camp; caring for her three siblings while her parents worked; transport to Uzbek, then Kazakh; attending school; her mother inviting an orphan (whom Mrs. S. later married) to live with them; and returning to Poland in 1944. Mrs. S. describes learning of the mass extermination of the Jews; fear of pogroms; flight to the American zone; her marriage in a displaced persons camp in Linz, Austria in 1946; the importance of aid received from UNRRA and HIAS; and emigration to the United States in 1947.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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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.
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- S., Jean, -- 1928-
Corporate Bodies
- HIAS (Agency)
- United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Refugee camps.
- Antisemitism -- Postwar.
- Postwar experiences.
- Child survivors.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Family.
Places
- Siberia (Russia)
- Kazakhstan.
- Uzbekistan.
- Ural Mountains (Russia)
- Poland.
- Rejowiec Lubelski (Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat