Dorothy L. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Dorothy L., who was born in Zgierz, Poland in 1922, one of six children. She recalls Jewish holidays; German invasion; briefly fleeing to Ozorko?w; returning home; forced relocation to Stryko?w; staying briefly with a friend in ?owicz; returning to Zgierz without her parents' knowledge; hiding with relatives; a Polish neighbor refusing to give her the family's possessions; relocation to the ?o?dz? ghetto; slave labor as a weaver; gradual liquidation of the ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz in August 1944; transfer to a salt mine near Hannover; the death march to Bergen-Belsen; liberation by British troops; punching a German guard despite her weakness; convalescing in Malmo?, Sweden; learning all her immediate family had been killed; emigration to the United States; marriage; and sharing her experiences with her five children. Mrs. L. notes her strongest memory is of her hope, will and belief in God. She shows family photographs.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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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
- L., Dorothy, -- 1922-
Corporate Bodies
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- Jewish ghettos.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Faith.
- Forced labor.
- Jews -- Poland -- Łódź.
- Revenge.
- Postwar experiences.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Death marches.
- Hiding.
Places
- Zgierz (Poland)
- Ozorków (Poland)
- Poland.
- Malmö (Sweden)
- Łódź ghetto.
- Stryków (Poland)
- Łowicz (Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat