Sophie B. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Sophie B., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1924. She recalls growing up in Tarnobrzeg; German occupation; fleeing with her family to Radomys?l, then Mielec; carrying wood and digging ditches in 1941; forced transfer with her parents and sister by cattle car to Mie?dzyrzecz in March 1942; obtaining an outside job with her sister; visiting her parents; sharing food with her father; learning of the massacres of Jews in Mie?dzyrzecz; being hidden with her sister by a Polish civil officer; fleeing to Warsaw, posing as non-Jews; briefly meeting her brother in Radomys?l (she never saw him again); traveling to Miechocin with her sister; being hidden by a Polish family friend; volunteering to replace his daughter as a forced laborer in Germany; using her papers to go to Stuttgart posing as a Polish slave laborer; working at a hotel; arranging for her sister to join her; meeting her future husband who was posing as a Christian Pole; liberation in 1945; re-establishing their Jewish identity; reunion with her fiance in February 1946; marriage; and emigration to the United States.
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
- B., Sophie, -- 1924-
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Mutual aid.
- Hiding.
- Postwar experiences.
- Sisters.
- Forced labor.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Child survivors.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
Places
- Kraków (Poland)
- Poland.
- Mielec (Poland)
- Radomyśl (Poland)
- Miechocin (Poland)
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Tarnobrzeg (Poland)
- Międzyrzecz (Poland)
- Stuttgart (Germany)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat