Anna K. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 3733
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Anna K., who was born in Bar, Ukraine in 1926. She recounts moving to Mohyliv-Podilʹsʹkyĭ, then Tomashpolʹ; attending school to eighth grade; cordial relations with non-Jews; German invasion in July 1941; evacuating to Stalingrad (Volgograd) with her parents and brother, then to Goncharovka; working on a collective farm; evacuation to Astrakhanʹ, Chimkent (On︠g︡tu̇stīk), Kazakhstan, then Karamurt; working on a collective farm; studying in Chimkent and working summers on the collective farm with her family; traveling to Makiïvka in 1944; working as a tax inspector; postwar return to Tomashpolʹ; learning all their relatives had been killed in Bar; moving to Chernivt︠s︡i in 1946; working in Zastavna; marriage in 1959; her daughter's birth in 1960; and emigration to Germany in 1994. Ms. K. discusses prewar family celebrations of Jewish holidays, and hardships and hunger during the war.

Extent and Medium

1 videocassette

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., Anna, -- 1926-

Subjects

  • Jews -- Migrations.
  • Family.
  • Child survivors.
  • Refugees, Jewish.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • Jewish children in the Holocaust.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Video tapes.
  • Women.

Places

  • Astrakhanʹ (Russia)
  • Makiïvka (Ukraine)
  • Mohyliv-Podilʹsʹkyĭ (Ukraine)
  • Volgograd (Russia)
  • Chernivt︠s︡i (Ukraine)
  • Zastavna (Ukraine)
  • Stalingrad (R.S.F.S.R.)
  • Chimkent (Kazakhstan)
  • Goncharovka (Ukraine)
  • Karamurt (Kazakhstan)
  • Ukraine.
  • On︠g︡tu̇stīk Qazaqstan oblysy (Kazakhstan)
  • Tomashpolʹ(Ukraine)
  • Bar (Ukraine)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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