Olga S. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Olga S., who was born in Bobrynetsสน, Ukraine in 1910. She recounts her father's death when she was an infant; her mother's remarriage; speaking Yiddish with her grandparents; placement in a Jewish orphanage by her family at age ten; American aid during the famine in 1921-1922; studying in Kiev beginning in 1928; marriage to a non-Jew in 1929; her mother's and brother's deaths; the births of her son and daughter; her husband's training as a pilot, leaving her alone in Kiev; German invasion; missing evacuation east; a German order for all Jews to gather on September 29, 1941; observing Jews digging mass graves and some being buried alive (she believed she was the only surviving Jew); a non-Jewish friend supplying her with a false birth certificate and baptismal papers; supporting herself and her children selling food; joining the underground; transporting weapons, obtaining information about German troop movements, distributing leaflets, and hiding partisans; arrest; and liberation by Soviet troops. Mrs. S. describes hearing from her husband; their reunion; her son's birth in 1945; and receiving medals and a pension for her work as a partisan. She shows documents, medals, photographs, and a plaque commemorating her apartment as an underground meeting place.

3 videocassettes