Genia L. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 3838
Language of Description
English
Dates
1 Jan 1996 - 31 Dec 1996
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Genia L., who was born in Szydłowiec, Poland in 1922, the third of four children. She recalls her warm and loving home; her family's orthodoxy; attending a Polish school; German invasion in September 1939; selling their possessions for food; ghettoization; her two older brothers' marriages in 1941; a warning two days prior to a round-up in fall 1942; moving to a work camp with her brother and his wife; slave labor building railroad tracks; escaping with her brother; a Polish acquaintance purchasing train tickets for them; joining their grandmother in the Skarżysko ghetto; learning her parents and younger brother had been deported to Treblinka; hearing from her other brother (he was later deported to Treblinka); round-up to Skarżysko concentration camp; slave labor in a HASAG munitions factory in Werke B; living in a barrack with relatives and a friend; and sewing to earn extra food for her brother, uncle, and friend.

Extent and Medium

10 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

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