Cipa R. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 1708
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Cipa R., who was born in Nizhneye Krivche, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Ukraine) in 1901. She recalls her family's affluence; their impoverishment after Soviet occupation; German invasion; forced relocation to Mel'nytsya-Podil's'ka; ghettoization in Borschiv; hiding in a bunker with twenty-two people, including her husband, their two children, and other relatives; collapse of the bunker roof resulting in the deaths of fifteen; local Poles hiding her family, a niece, and two cousins; liberation by Soviet troops; living in Borshchiv; assistance from Poles; antisemitic harassment and violence by Ukrainians; moving to Bytom; illegally traveling to Germany; living in Zigenhain displaced persons camp, then in Berlin, and for four years in Kassel; obtaining papers to emigrate to the United States in Butzbach; moving to Bremen; emigration to the United States; and assistance from HIAS.

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

  • R., Cipa.

Corporate Bodies

  • HIAS (Agency)

Subjects

  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Husband and wife.
  • Women.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • Families.
  • Refugee camps.
  • Mothers and daughters.
  • Mothers and sons.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Video tapes.
  • Jews -- Ukraine -- Borshchiv (Ternopil's'ka oblast')
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • Hiding.
  • Soviet occupation.
  • Aid by non-Jews.
  • Bunkers.
  • Antisemitism -- Postwar.
  • Postwar experiences.

Places

  • Bremen (Germany)
  • Borshchiv ghetto.
  • Ziegenhain (Germany : Refugee camp)
  • Austria.
  • Mel'nytsya-Podil's'ka (Ternopil's'ka oblast', Ukraine)
  • Nizhneye Krivche (Ukraine)
  • Berlin (Germany)
  • Bytom (Poland)
  • Butzbach (Germany)
  • Kassel (Germany)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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