Jadwiga G. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Jadwiga G., who was born in Lublin, Poland in 1923, one of three children. Ms. G. recalls her family's affluence; attending Polish school; cordial relations with non-Jews; German invasion; ghettoization; moving to Melgiew in summer 1941; her future husband joining them; visiting friends and relatives in the Lublin ghetto; obtaining authentic documents as non-Jews; round-ups of Jews from nearby villages in October 1942; returning to Lublin; her father leaving en route when he was robbed and lost hope (she never saw him again); his non-Jewish, former employer arranging to include her mother and sister as Polish forced laborers in Germany; hiding with her husband; going out since she did not look Jewish; moving to Warsaw with funds from her husband's very wealthy family; moving often to avoid detection; assistance from many non-Jews and underground members; moving with her husband and his younger sister to a rescuer's summer home in Zielonka in November; returning to Warsaw in March 1943, fearing detection; meeting escapees from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; printing underground papers; visiting friends in Hotel Polski (they were killed); her husband joining partisans in the forest (he was killed); receiving funds from Z?egota; a Gestapo interrogation during which a German "race expert" declared her a non-Jew; moving to ?uko?w with her brother; liberation by Soviet troops in July 1944; moving to Jo?zefo?w; marriage to a non-Jewish Pole; and reunion with her mother and sister when they returned in 1945.
Extent and Medium
13 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., Jadwiga, -- 1923-
Corporate Bodies
- Rada Pomocy Żydom "Żegota."
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Poland -- Lublin.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Poland.
- Brothers and sisters.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Mutual aid.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Postwar experiences.
- Hiding.
- Faith.
- Husband and wife.
- False papers.
- Nightmares.
- Antisemitism -- Postwar.
- Postwar effects.
Places
- Melgiew (Poland)
- Lublin (Poland)
- Zielonka (Warsaw, Poland)
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Poland.
- Józefów (Poland)
- Łuków (Lublin, Poland)
- Lublin ghetto.
- Warsaw (Poland) -- History -- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat