Judith G. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Judith G., who was born in Vilna, Poland in 1932. She recalls her parents' emphasis on music and theater; anti-Semitic incidents in school; Soviet occupation; German invasion; ghettoization in 1941; protection from deportation due to her father's job as an engineer; attending ghetto schools; cultural events; hiding in bunkers during aktions; hearing of mass killings at Ponary; constant fear of death; and futile efforts to hide during the fall of 1943. Mrs. G. describes separation from her father and brother; transport to Kaiserwald with her mother and aunt; accompanying her mother to work at AEG to avoid child round-ups; transport after six months to Stutthof; transfer with her mother and aunt to the Torun? AEG plant in October 1944; a death march in April; the guards' disappearance; hiding in a basement in Bydgoszcz; liberation; moving to ?o?dz? due to anti-Semitic incidents; reunion with her brother; and emigration to the United States. She tells of postwar nightmares; shows a ring her father made in the ghetto; displays her art with Holocaust themes; and sings ghetto songs. Mrs. G. emphasizes family relationships throughout her testimony.
Extent and Medium
3 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)
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., Judith, -- 1932-
Corporate Bodies
- Stutthof (Concentration camp)
- Kaiserwald (Concentration camp)
- Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft (Germany)
Subjects
- Bunkers.
- Soviet occupation.
- Hiding.
- Child survivors.
- Mass killings.
- Paneriai Massacres, Paneriai, Lithuania, 1941-1944.
- Death marches.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Mutual aid.
- Jewish councils.
- Antisemitism -- Postwar.
- Forced labor.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in art.
- Brothers and sisters.
- Fathers and daughters.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Songs and music.
- Jews -- Lithuania -- Vilnius.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Nightmares.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Psychological aspects.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
Places
- Vilna ghetto.
- Vilnius (Lithuania)
- Vilna (Poland)
- Łódź (Poland)
- Toruń (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Bydgoszcz (Poland)
- Poland.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat