Genia L. Holocaust testimony
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
People
- L., Genia, -- 1922-
Corporate Bodies
- Türkheim (Concentration camp)
- Allach (Concentration camp)
- Feldafing (Displaced persons camp)
- Exodus 1947 (Ship)
- Skarżysko-Kamienna (Concentration camp)
- Częstochowa (Concentration camp)
- Hugo Schneider Aktiengesellschaft.
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
- Burgau (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Mutual aid.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Postwar effects.
- Postwar experiences.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Family.
- Jews -- Poland -- Skarżysko-Kamienna.
- Faith.
- Concentration camps -- Psychological aspects.
- Nightmares.
- Refugee camps.
- Public opinion -- Israel.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Public opinion.
- Brothers and sisters.
- Escapes.
- Jews -- Poland -- Szydłowiec (Województwo Mazowieckie)
- Forced labor
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
Places
- Szydłowiec (Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland)
- Poland.
- Palestine -- Emigration and immigration.
- Szydłowiec ghetto.
- Skarżysko-Kamienna ghetto.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat