Ida S. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Ida S., who was born in Tarno?w, Poland in 1921, one of ten children. She recounts her father working as a kosher slaughterer and rabbi; one sister's emigration to Palestine in 1937; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; her father illegally continuing kosher slaughtering; a sister and brother fleeing to the Soviet Union; ghettoization; deportation of three brothers in June 1942; hiding in sewers, then with her brother-in-law in a cellar; deportation in cattle cars; escaping (she had false papers); returning to the Tarno?w ghetto; deportation to P?aszo?w in 1943; slave labor; transfer to Auschwitz/Birkenau; public hangings; a death march and train transfer to Bergen-Belsen; transfer to a munitions factory, then to Mauthausen; Czechs giving them food en route; liberation by United States troops; hospitalization; returning home; recuperating from tuberculosis; living in Krako?w; hearing from her sister in Palestine; reunion with her brother; traveling with the Jewish Brigade to Germany; living briefly in a displaced persons camp; moving to Heidelberg; and emigration to the United States. Ms. S. discusses keeping her father's pocket watch and family photographs throughout the war and sharing her experiences with her children and grandchildren. She shows photographs.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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This testimony is open with permission.
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People
- S., Ida, -- 1921-
Corporate Bodies
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Płaszów (Concentration camp)
- Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Survivor-child relations.
- Postwar experiences.
- Mutual aid.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Death marches.
- Forced labor.
- Escapes.
- Hiding.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Refugee camps.
- False papers.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Poland -- Tarnów (Województwo Małopolskie, Poland)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
Places
- Tarnów ghetto.
- Heidelberg (Germany)
- Kraków (Poland)
- Tarnów (Województwo Małopolskie, Poland)
- Poland.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat