Olga F. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 2602
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Olga F., who was born in Lwo?w, Poland in 1925. She recalls her family's move to Czernowitz in 1927; increasing antisemitism; summer visits to relatives in Lwo?w; an influx of Jewish refugees after the German invasion of Poland; their inability to sense the imminent danger; Soviet occupation; deportation of property owners to Siberia; German invasion; destruction of Jewish property; ghettoization; deportation to Ataki, then Transnistria by Romanian forces; moving to Mogilev, then Derebchin; food shortages and overcrowding; being hidden by her mother to avoid forced labor; liberation by Soviet troops; returning to Czernowitz; moving to Bucharest in May 1945; emigration to the United States in 1947; and her marriage and three children. Mrs. F. names many relatives who were deported and killed and emphasizes the brutality of the local populations.

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., Olga, -- 1925-

Subjects

  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Video tapes.
  • Women.
  • Hiding.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Child survivors.
  • Jews -- Ukraine -- Chernivt︠s︡i.
  • Soviet occupation.
  • Antisemitism -- Prewar.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.

Places

  • Chernivt︠s︡i (Ukraine)
  • L'viv (Ukraine)
  • Mohyliv-Podilʹsʹkyī (Ukraine)
  • Transnistria.
  • Poland.
  • Derebchin (Ukraine)
  • Ataki (Moldova)
  • Cernāu_ti (Romania)
  • Bucharest (Romania)
  • Lwów (Poland)
  • Czernowitz (Austria)
  • Mogilev (Belarus)
  • Lemberg (Poland)
  • Czernowitz ghetto.
  • Otaci (Moldova)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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