Henny G. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Henny G., who was born in Vilna, Poland. She recalls the musical focus and talents of her parents, brother and sister; attending the music conservatory; antagonism from non-Jews when she sang Christian songs; family celebrations of Jewish holidays; Polish youth beating Jewish children; Soviet occupation; German invasion in 1941; ghettoization; maintaining cultural life in the ghetto; performing in a musical production composed by her brother; overcrowding; obtaining work permits to avoid deportation; her father's arrest and death; performing with orchestras in Stutthof and Dachau; liberation; performing with an orchestra in Fu?rstenfeldbruck, Landsberg and other displaced persons camps; singing at the Zionist congress in Munich; performing with Leonard Bernstein; and singing at Nuremberg during the war crime trials. Mrs. G. shows many photographs throughout the testimony.
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
- G., Henny.
- Bernstein, Leonard, -- 1918-1990.
Corporate Bodies
- Stutthof (Concentration camp)
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
- Landsberg am Lech (Displaced persons camp)
Subjects
- Forced labor.
- Jewish ghettos -- Songs and music.
- Concentration camps -- Songs and music.
- Singers, Jewish.
- Jews -- Lithuania -- Vilnius.
- Jewish ghettos.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Refugee camps.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Soviet occupation.
- Postwar experiences.
Places
- Munich (Germany)
- Nuremberg (Germany)
- Vilna ghetto.
- FuĚrstenfeldbruck (Germany : Refugee camp)
- Poland.
- Vilna (Poland)
- Vilnius (Lithuania)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat