Ida C. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Ida C., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1931. She recalls moving to Siedlce, returning to Warsaw prior to 1938; brief German invasion while she was with her grandparents near Siedlce; Soviet occupation; traveling to Minsk; her parents and sister joining them, transport to Arkhangel?sk in late 1939, then to a labor camp in Komi; attending school while her parents worked; hunger; and transfer to Samarqand at the end of 1941. Mrs. C. recounts their return to Poland in 1945; leaving ?o?dz? intending to emigrate to Palestine, living in a displaced persons camp and in Ulm; attending school; and emigrating to the United States in 1949.
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
- C., Ida, -- 1931-
Subjects
- Child survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- Refugee camps.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- Postwar experiences.
- Soviet occupation.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees.
- Family.
Places
- Siedlce (Poland)
- Minsk (Belarus)
- Komi (Russia)
- Arkhangelʹsk (Russia)
- Poland.
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Samarqand (Uzbekistan)
- Łódź (Poland)
- Ulm (Germany)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat