Sofia K. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Sofia K., who was born in Pogost, Belarus in 1919, one of four children. She recalls attending Jewish school, then Russian school; observing Shabbat and Jewish holidays; cordial relations with non-Jews; working as a telephone operator in the post office; German invasion; a mass killing of Jewish men, including her father and brother; confinement of the surviving Jews; escaping with her mother and sister to the Slutsk ghetto; slave labor doing construction; escaping from a round-up in August 1942; returning to Pogost; joining partisans in Mikashevichi; living in a bunker; returning home after liberation in August 1944; marriage to a partisan; moving to Pinsk because no one had survived in Pogost; the births of two daughters; and her husband's death in 1974. Mrs. K. discusses suffering from nervous tension due to her experiences. She shows her partisan identification card.
Extent and Medium
3 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
- K., Sofia, -- 1919-
Subjects
- Jewish ghettos.
- Forced labor.
- Jews -- Belarus -- Slutsk.
- Escapes.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Belarus.
- Partisans.
- Mass killings.
- Bunkers.
- Hiding.
- Postwar effects.
- Postwar experiences.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
Places
- Belarus.
- Mikashevichi (Belarus)
- Pogost-Zagorodskiy (Belarus)
- Pinsk (Belarus)
- Slutsk ghetto.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat