Eleanor O. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 2732
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Eleanor O., who was born in Jano?w, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Ivano-Frankovo, Ukraine) in 1916, one of three daughters. She recounts the family move to L?viv when she was five; attending public school; completing art school in 1939; Soviet occupation; marriage in 1940; German invasion; ghettoization; forced factory labor; her mother's deportation in November 1941; hiding her father with a non-Jew (he was discovered and killed); obtaining false papers as a non-Jew; traveling by herself to Warsaw in 1943; reunion with her sister; the Warsaw Uprising; hiding briefly with underground members, then escaping to Krzeszowice; she and her sister living with a Polish family; liberation by Soviet troops; traveling to Krako?w; reunion with her husband and other sister; moving to ?o?dz?; emigrating to the United States; and her husband's death in 1967. Ms. O. discusses her constant fear while hiding, and attributes her survival to the many non-Jews who helped her.

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. This testimony can only be used for educational or research purposes. It cannot be shown in public.

Rules and Conventions

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Process Info

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

People

  • O., Eleanor, -- 1916-

Subjects

  • Soviet occupation.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance -- Poland.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Poland.
  • Sisters.
  • Forced labor.
  • Jews -- Ukraine -- Lʹviv.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • Women.
  • Video tapes.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Hiding.
  • False papers.
  • Aid by non-Jews.

Places

  • Lʹviv (Ukraine)
  • Ivano-Frankovo (Ukraine)
  • Austria.
  • Lʹvov ghetto.
  • Janów (Ukraine)
  • Łódź (Poland)
  • Kraków (Poland)
  • Krzeszowice (Poland)
  • Warsaw (Poland) -- History -- Uprising, 1944.
  • Warsaw (Poland)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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