Sally K. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Sally K., who was born in 1927 in Pabianice, Poland, one of ten children. She recounts German invasion; ghettoization; anti-Jewish measures; separation from her parents and youngest siblings during a round-up (she never saw them again); deportation to the ?o?dz? ghetto with her sisters; starvation; forced labor; voluntary transfer to an ammunition factory with one sister; separation from her sister; transfer to Ravensbru?ck; failing health; being placed on a pile of corpses; a friend removing and feeding her; transfer to Burgau; finding one sister; their transfer to another camp; a death march; help from her sister; German women throwing them bread; liberation in Dachau by United States troops; hospitalization; learning her older sister was in Pabianice; emigration to the United States with her sister in 1947; bringing her older sister from Poland in 1958; and her sister's death shortly thereafter. Mrs. K. discusses recurrent nightmares; continuing contact with the friend who helped her in Ravensbru?ck; sharing her experiences with her children; trips to Poland and Israel; and learning the details of her parents' and siblings' deaths. She shows photographs.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.
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Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- K., Sally, -- 1927-
Corporate Bodies
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
- Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
- Burgau (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Jews -- Poland -- Łódź.
- Forced labor.
- Sisters.
- Death marches.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Poland -- Pabianice.
- Postwar experiences.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Postwar effects.
- Nightmares.
- Child survivors.
- Mutal aid.
- Aid by non-Jews.
Places
- Pabianice (Poland)
- Poland.
- Łódź ghetto.
- Pabianice ghetto.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat