Henny G. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 2601
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Henny G., who was born in Vilna, Poland. In addition to information in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-1774), Ms. G. recounts forced labor in the ghetto; a public hanging (she later learned they were partisans); deportation with her sister to Kaiserwald; slave labor in Duenawerke; the brutality of the Nazi female guards; participating in the camp concerts and plays; transfer to Landsberg, then Dachau; liberation by United States troops from a death march; performing with Leonard Bernstein at displaced persons camps, including Feldafing, in 1946; support from the Joint and UNRRA; emigration with her sister to the United States in 1950; and meeting her husband en route.

Extent and Medium

3 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.

Related Units of Description

  • Related material: Henny G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1774), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Rules and Conventions

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Process Info

  • compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

People

  • Bernstein, Leonard, -- 1918-1990.
  • G., Henny.

Corporate Bodies

  • Landsberg (Concentration camp)
  • Dachau (Concentration camp)
  • Feldafing (Displaced persons camp)
  • United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
  • American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
  • Kaiserwald (Concentration camp)

Subjects

  • Postwar experiences.
  • Child survivors.
  • Sisters.
  • Concentration camps -- Songs and music.
  • Refugee camps.
  • Death marches.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • Women.
  • Video tapes.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Jews -- Lithuania -- Vilnius.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Forced labor.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
  • Singers, Jewish.
  • Jewish ghettos -- Songs and music.

Places

  • Vilna ghetto.
  • Nuremberg (Germany)
  • Duenawerke (Latvia : Concentration camp)
  • Vilnius (Lithuania)
  • Poland.
  • Munich (Germany)
  • Vilna (Poland)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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