Tova G. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Tova G., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1929. She recounts German invasion in September 1939; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization in 1940; forced labor in order to obtain rations; continuing their Shabbat observance; breaking her leg; her mother's death; deportations in 1942, including relatives; hiding, with help from an aunt, to avoid deportation; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944 with her father and siblings; separation from her family; a beating by a Kapo; transfer to Kiel six weeks later; slave labor in a factory; aid from an Italian POW; transfer to Theresienstadt; liberation by Soviet troops; living in an orphanage in Manchester, England for two years; and emigration to Palestine in 1947. Mrs. G. discusses difficulty adjusting to normal life and persistent feelings of loss and pain.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- G., Tova, -- 1929-
Corporate Bodies
- Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Hiding.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Postwar experiences.
- Postwar effects.
- Mutual aid.
- Forced labor.
- Prisoners of war -- Germany.
- Orphanages -- England.
- Child survivors.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Jews -- Poland -- Łódź.
- Jewish ghettos.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
Places
- Palestine.
- Manchester (England)
- Łódź ghetto.
- Kiel (Germany : Concentration camp)
- Poland.
- Łódź (Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat