Sonja M. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Sonja M., who was born in Krevo, Poland in 1922. She recalls her four brothers; attending public and Jewish schools; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in 1941; transfer to the Oshmyany ghetto; slave labor with two cousins in Kena in 1943; transfer with her younger brother to Kais?iadorys; a partisan attack; transfer to Kovno, then Stutthof; a beating for trying to smuggle food to her friends; a death march in January 1944; liberation by Soviet troops; recuperation in a Soviet military hospital in Ciechocinek; meeting her future husband; traveling to Byshkov, then Gdan?sk; marriage; living in a displaced persons camp in Germany; her son's birth; emigrating to the United States; her husband's death; remarriage; and her second son's birth. Ms. M. notes that her parents and siblings, except for one brother, were killed in the Holocaust and her gratitude to the United States. She shows photographs and her book about her experiences.
Extent and Medium
2 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.
Rules and Conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- M., Sonja, -- 1922-
Corporate Bodies
- Stutthof (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Lithuania.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Belarus -- Ashmi︠a︡ny.
- Soviet occupation.
- Postwar experiences.
- Brothers and sisters.
- Refugee camps.
- Holocaust survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
Places
- Krevo (Belarus)
- Kena (Lithuania)
- Poland.
- Ciechocinek (Poland)
- Gdańsk (Poland)
- Kaunas (Lithuania)
- Byshkov (Ukraine)
- Oshmyany ghetto.
- Kaišiadorys (Lithuania : Concentration camp)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat