Sarah G. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Sarah G., who was born in 1927 in Poland. She recalls emigration to Paris; her orthodox home in a Jewish neighborhood; her father's expulsion from France in 1934 (he was working illegally); his legal return a year later; a brief evacuation to Yonne with her mother and five siblings when the war began in 1939; German invasion of Paris in 1940; anti-Jewish laws; visiting friends in Pithiviers; her mother's death in 1941; placing her younger siblings in OSE orphanages; and eluding the Ve?lodrome d'Hiver round-up of July 16, 1942. Mrs. G. recounts living with a French Jewish family; her father being hidden by co-workers in the basement of his workshop for the entire war; fleeing to Landivy with her youngest brothers and her friend, the daughter of the Jewish family with whom she had lived; confessing they were Jewish to a vicar; being placed on a farm as a servant with her friend (her brothers were taken by OSE); fleeing to Paris with her friend months before liberation; joining UJRE; and her siblings' return after liberation. She describes her postwar life and that of her siblings.
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
- G., Sarah, -- 1927-
Corporate Bodies
- World Union OSE.
- Union des juifs pour la résistance et l'entraide.
- Pithiviers (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Postwar experiences.
- Hiding.
- Child survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
Places
- Paris (France)
- Yonne (France)
- Landivy (France)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat