Rosalyn C. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Rosalyn C., who was born in Paneve?z?ys, Lithuania in 1930 and raised in Kaunas. She recalls a comfortable childhood; attending Yiddish school; Soviet occupation in 1940; German invasion in 1941; ghettoization; one brother being taken in a round-up (they never saw him again); forced labor; escaping the 1944 round-up of children because she looked older; her other brother's death at the Ninth Fort; hiding underground with her parents in 1944; exposure; transport to Stutthof; separation from her father (she never saw him again); slave labor in Malki; a death march in January 1945; crying every night; her mother stealing food for her; liberation by Soviet troops; hospitalization for weeks; traveling to ?o?dz?; learning her father had perished in Dachau; traveling to Italy; living in displaced persons camps; in Cremona, hearing from relatives in the United States; emigration in 1949; assistance from their relatives; marriage in 1953; the birth of two sons; and her mother's death in 1974. Ms. C. discusses the importance of being with her mother to her survival; being numb in the camps; and seldom discussing her story, even with her children. She shows a movie of Paneve?z?ys taken by a visiting relative in 1934.
Extent and Medium
3 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., Rosalyn, -- 1930-
Corporate Bodies
- Stutthof (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Soviet occupation.
- Child survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Jews -- Lithuania -- Kaunas.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Forced labor.
- Concentration camps -- Psychological aspects.
- Death marches.
- Hiding.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Mutual aid.
- Postwar experiences.
Places
- Lithuania.
- Łódź (Poland)
- Cremona (Italy)
- Panevėžys (Lithuania)
- Kaunas (Lithuania)
- Malki (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Kovno ghetto.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat