Sharon B. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Sharon B., who was born in Vilna, Poland in 1922, one of four sisters. She recalls belonging to Zionist youth groups; Soviet occupation in 1939; confiscation of the family store; attending Soviet public schools; German invasion in June 1941; a futile attempt to flee; returning home; ghettoization; her mother sending her and a sister to Polish peasants; returning to the ghetto fearing exposure; visiting Catholic friends outside the ghetto; being taken with her family in a round-up; escaping with help from a Lithuanian guard; hiding at a friend's house; obtaining false documents; working on a farm; leaving fearing exposure; working in a hospital; volunteering to work in Germany; working as a domestic and in a restaurant in Karlsruhe; liberation by French troops; traveling to Freiburg; living in Feldafing displaced persons camp; reunion with her brother-in-law; learning of her parents' murders in Ponary; traveling to ?o?dz? to find her sisters; returning to Germany; marriage to an American soldier; and emigration to the United States in 1948. Ms. B. discusses her pervasive fear and pain during the war and continuing hostility toward Germans.
Extent and Medium
3 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
- B., Sharon, -- 1922-
Corporate Bodies
- Feldafing (Displaced persons camp)
Subjects
- Postwar experiences.
- Escapes.
- Paneriai Massacres, Paneriai, Lithuania, 1941-1944.
- Zionist organizations.
- Refugee camps.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Soviet occupation.
- Hiding.
- False papers.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Lithuania -- Vilnius.
Places
- Vilnius (Lithuania)
- Poland.
- Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany)
- Karlsruhe (Germany)
- Vilna ghetto.
- Łódź (Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat