Frieda P. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Frieda P., who was born in Katowice, Poland in 1919. She recounts her father's early death; moving with her family to Se?dziszo?w, then Sosnowiec; antisemitic harassment by other children; German occupation; anti-Jewish measures; arranging a job for her mother with assistance from a German woman; her mother's deportation (she never saw her again); transfer to Mys?owice (Fu?rstengrube), then Gra?ditz; public hangings; assistance from a German soldier; sharing food with her fellow prisoners; slave labor in an ammunition factory; transfer to Langenbielau; forced labor at looms; liberation by Soviet troops in May 1945; living in Reichenbach; marriage in Munich; emigration in 1949 to the United States; and her daughter's birth in 1952. Mrs. P. notes permanent damage from the war years as well as several miscarriages.
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
- P., Frieda, -- 1919-
Corporate Bodies
- Langenbielau (Concentration camp)
- Myslowice (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Mutual aid.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Postwar effects.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Forced labor.
- Postwar experiences.
Places
- Gräditz (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie, Poland)
- Sędziszów (Poland)
- Munich (Germany)
- Reichenbach (Breslau, Germany)
- Katowice (Poland)
- Poland.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat