Toby F. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Toby F., who was born in Chernyt?s?i?a?, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1926. She describes celebrating Shabbat and holidays; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in 1941; having to provide gold and wheat to the Germans; ghettoization in Brody; returning with her sister to Chernyt?s?i?a? (her parents and other siblings stayed behind); separation from her sister, who returned to Brody; her mother's arrival after the liquidation of the ghetto (her father, brother, and two sisters had been killed); hiding in the forest and with non-Jews; occasionally meeting her mother who was hiding elsewhere; liberation by Soviet troops; moving with her mother to Podkamen?, Kremenet?s??, L?viv, then to a cousin's in Dubno; living in Pocking and Fo?hrenwald displaced persons camps; assistance from UNRRA; her mother's stroke; visiting her in a Munich hospital; her mother's emigration to join relatives in the United States; moving to Bad Wo?rishofen displaced persons camp; marriage; and her own emigration to the United States in 1949 with assistance from HIAS and relatives. Ms. F. shows photographs and discusses her books and paintings.
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
- F., Toby, -- 1926-
Corporate Bodies
- United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
- Föhrenwald (Displaced persons camp)
Subjects
- Jews -- Ukraine -- Brody (Lʹvivsʹka oblastʹ)
- Mothers and daughters.
- Soviet occupation.
- Child survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Refugee camps.
- Hiding.
- Forests.
- Postwar experiences.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
Places
- Poland.
- Podkamenʹ (Ukraine)
- Chernyt︠s︡i︠a︡ (Lʹvivsʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine)
- Brody ghetto.
- Pocking (Passau, Germany : Refugee camp)
- Bad Wörishofen (Germany : Refugee camp)
- Kremenet︠s︡ʹ (Ukraine)
- Lʹviv (Ukraine)
- Dubno (Ukraine)
- Munich (Germany)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat