Sonya B. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Sonya B., who was born in 1923 in Poland, one of five children. She recounts her family's move to Zheludok when she was six; attending a Jewish, then Polish school; antisemitic harassment; Soviet occupation; attending school in Lida; joining the Komsomol; one brother's draft into the Soviet army; German invasion; fleeing east; ghettoization in Dyatlovo (Dzi︠a︡tlava); work caring for a baby, then forced labor building roads; joining the ghetto underground with her brother; hiding in a bunker with her father; escaping to the forest with a friend; assistance from a non-Jewish farmer; joining Jewish partisans; a brief reunion with her brother (he was in the Soviet partisans); members of her group liberating Jews, including her father, from a nearby camp; cooking, laundering, and tending to the wounded; blowing up trains; building a forest bunker; battles with German soldiers, including one in Ruda Yavorskaya; contemplating suicide when she feared capture; treatment by a partisan physician; and liberation by Soviet troops in July 1944.
Extent and Medium
7 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
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- B., Sonya, -- 1923-
Corporate Bodies
- Vsesoi︠u︡znyĭ leninskiĭ kommunisticheskiĭ soi︠u︡z molodezhi.
Subjects
- Survivor-child relations.
- Postwar effects.
- Partisans.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Bunkers.
- Hiding.
- Antisemitism -- Postwar.
- Postwar experiences.
- False papers.
- Forests.
- Suicide.
- Brothers and sisters.
- Fathers and daughters.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Ukraine.
- Soviet occupation.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Nightmares.
- Refugee camps.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Forced labor.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance.
- Escapes.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Belarus -- Dzi︠a︡tlava.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
Places
- Ruda Yavorskaya (Belarus)
- Lida (Belarus)
- Dzi︠a︡tlava (Belarus)
- Zheludok (Belarus)
- Poland.
- Marseille (France)
- Brussels (Belgium)
- Graz (Austria)
- Budapest (Hungary)
- Międzyrzec Podlaski (Poland)
- Biała Podlaska (Poland)
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Łódź (Poland)
- Dyatlovo ghetto.
- Zsheṭl (Belarus)
- ʻAtlit (Israel)
- Palestine -- Emigration and immigration.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat