Lucy R. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Lucy R., who was born in Poland in 1920, one of eight children. She recalls her family's move to Krosno; German invasion; marriage in 1940; ghettoization; her father's death; transfer with her family to a concentration camp in Krosno; working in the laundry; separation from her mother and brother; her brother's escape and return; transfer to P?aszo?w with her mother, brother, and husband; Amon Goeth randomly shooting prisoners; her brother hiding during the children's deportation; her husband's and brother's transfer to Mauthausen; her transfer to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944; finding her mother there; transfer to Stutthof; dreaming her father told her to return home for Passover; a death march; escaping with five others; hiding in a pig pen; discovery by the farmer; arrest; escaping and hiding in another house; liberation by Soviet troops; receiving food and protection from a local woman; recovering in Bydgoszcz; and learning of her husband's death. Mrs. R. recounts meeting her second husband in Krako?w; learning her mother was killed in Krosno after the war; living in Bindermichl displaced persons camp; locating her brother; reunion with her sister; working for Berih?ah; marriage in Austria; and emigration to the United States.
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
- R., Lucy, -- 1920-
- Göth, Amon, -- 1908-1946.
Corporate Bodies
- Beriḥah (Organization)
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- Stutthof (Concentration camp)
- Płaszów (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Hiding.
- Postwar experiences.
- Refugee camps.
- Husband -- Death.
- Dreams.
- Husband and wife.
- Escapes.
- Death marches.
- Forced labor.
- Jews -- Poland -- Krosno.
- Brothers and sisters.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- Jewish ghettos.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Mutual aid.
Places
- Krosno (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Bindermichl (Austria : Refugee camp)
- Krosno (Krosno, Poland)
- Krosno ghetto.
- Kraków (Poland)
- Bydgoszcz (Poland)
- Poland.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat