Linda P. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 1962
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Linda P., who was born in Grodno, Poland (now Hrodna, Belarus) in 1931. She recalls an anti-Jewish riot in the mid 1930s; Soviet occupation; German invasion in 1941; ghettoization; deportation to Treblinka; immediate transfer to Majdanek with 100 women, including her mother; slave labor sorting clothing of those who were exterminated; hospitalization for typhus; being saved by a nurse; transfer to Trawniki, then back to Majdanek in June 1944; a death march and train transport to Auschwitz/Birkenau; transfer to Bergen-Belsen in November 1944, then to Aschersleben; slave labor in an airplane factory; frequent Allied bombings; evacuation to Theresienstadt; liberation by Soviet troops; traveling to Cze?stochowa and ?o?dz?; failing to find surviving relatives; moving to Badgastein displaced persons camp, then to Italy, hoping to emigrate to Israel; and emigration to the United States in 1951. Mrs L. discusses questioning God's existence while in concentration camps.

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

  • P., Linda, -- 1931-

Corporate Bodies

  • Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
  • Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
  • Birkenau (Concentration camp)
  • Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
  • Trawniki (Concentration camp)
  • Majdanek (Concentration camp)
  • Treblinka (Concentration camp)

Subjects

  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Video tapes.
  • Women.
  • Jews -- Belarus -- Hrodna.
  • Forced labor.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Hospitals in concentration camps.
  • Mutual aid.
  • Mothers and daughters.
  • Friendship.
  • Death marches.
  • Faith.
  • Antisemitism -- Prewar.
  • Soviet occupation.
  • Refugee camps.
  • Child survivors.

Places

  • Aschersleben (Germany : Concentration camp)
  • Grodno ghetto.
  • Grodno (Poland)
  • Częstochowa (Poland)
  • Badgastein (Austria : Refugee camp)
  • Italy.
  • Łódź (Poland)
  • Poland.
  • Hrodna (Belarus)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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