Chana G. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Chana G., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1917, one of eleven children. She recalls her family's affluence; German invasion; some of her brothers fleeing to the Soviet zone; ghettoization; forced labor sorting possessions of deportees; smuggling herself to Brzeziny with her mother; returning to the ?o?dz? ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her mother (she never saw her again); transfer to Bad Kudowa; slave labor in a munitions factory; recurring dreams of her father; a beating which resulted in permanent deafness in one ear; receiving extra food from nearby Czech partisans; liberation; assistance from a local Czech woman; returning to ?o?dz?; meeting her future husband; moving to Munich; reunion with her one surviving brother; marriage; emigration to the United States in 1947; and her daughter's birth. Mrs. G. notes her close relationship with her brother and shows photographs.
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., Chana, -- 1917-
Corporate Bodies
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Postwar effects.
- Jews -- Poland -- Łódź.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Postwar experiences.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Dreams.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Czechoslovakia.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
Places
- Łódź (Poland)
- Poland.
- Munich (Germany)
- Brzeziny (Łódź, Poland)
- Bad Kudowa (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Łódź ghetto.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat