Zipporah S. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Zipporah S., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1938. She tells of German occupation; her family's move to the Bochnia ghetto; her father buying false papers; being smuggled into Hungary with a paid guide; registering as Christian Polish refugees; receiving help from a Hungarian woman (she did not know they were Jews); moving to Budapest; the woman arranging for her, her sister, and cousin to live in a Swedish convent while her parents remained in hiding (no one knew they were Jews); liberation by Soviet troops; reunion with her parents; moving to Prague; emigrating to New Zealand in 1947 to join relatives; attending school in Wellington; their move to Toronto, Canada in 1955, seeking more Jewish life; marriage; emigration to the United States in 1958; having four children; and her family's ties to Israel.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette
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
- S., Zipporah, -- 1938-
Subjects
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Escapes.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Jews -- Poland -- Bochnia.
- Family.
- Convents.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Child survivors.
- Sisters.
- Identification (Religion)
- Postwar experiences.
- Hiding.
- False papers.
Places
- Budapest (Hungary)
- Wellington (N.Z.)
- KrakoĚw (Poland)
- Poland.
- Bochnia ghetto.
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Prague (Czech Republic)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat