Sally K. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 1518
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Sally K., who was born in Poland in 1927 and grew up in ?o?dz?. She recalls her happy youth as the eldest of six children; German invasion; a public hanging; transport with her father and siblings to Krako?w; smuggling themselves back to ?o?dz? to rejoin Mrs. K.'s mother; ghettoization; hiding during deportations; deportation with her family to Auschwitz in August 1944; separation from her mother and youngest siblings; hearing her father was alive; transfer twelve days later with two sister to Stutthof; frequent deaths including one sister's; a death march in February 1945; remaining in a prisoner-of-war camp when her other sister could not continue; being wounded when German soldiers threw grenades as they fled in March; and liberation by Soviet troops. She recounts hospitalization in Stutthof and Danzig; separation from her sister whom she never saw again; reunion with her father in ?o?dz?; living in the Feldafing displaced persons camp; marriage; and joining her father and stepmother in the United States in 1949. She tells of testifying with her father at the war crime trial of Gu?nther Fuchs in Hannover in 1963.

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

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