Musya V. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Musya V., who was born in Brat?s?lav, Ukraine in 1927. She recalls finishing seventh grade; German invasion; Romanians organizing local police; the murder of Jewish hostages and others at the Bug River; ghettoization; forced labor; arrival of Jews from Bukovina and Bessarabia; shootings of many during transfer to Pechora; transfer to a camp in Brat?s?lav; escaping with aid from a Russian girl; the girl's father hiding her (he helped many Jews); her parents hiding nearby; being caught while visiting them; their incarceration in Pechora; and liberation by Soviet troops. Ms. V. tells stories of relatives and other Jews. She shows photographs.
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
- V., Musya, -- 1927-
Corporate Bodies
- Peciora (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Video tapes.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Escapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Hiding.
- Mass killings.
- Fathers and daughters.
- Child survivors.
- Mothers and daughters.
Places
- Ukraine.
- Brat︠s︡lav (Ukraine)
- Brat︠s︡lav (Ukraine : Concentration camp)
- Southern Bug River (Ukraine)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat