Tzila P. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Tzila P., who was born in Kybartai, Lithuania, one of two sisters. She recounts the family moving to Kaunas; her sister's emigration to Palestine in the early 1930s; marriage in 1938; Soviet occupation; German invasion; a round-up by Lithuanians, including her father and husband; her mother retrieving her father (she never saw her husband again); ghettoization; obtaining work outside the ghetto; smuggling food into the ghetto; hiding her mother during round-ups (her father had been taken); hiding in a bunker, then surrendering; deportation to Stutthof; transfer to Gutowo; assistance from a German soldier; her mother's death; remaining behind, sick with typhus, during the camp's evacuation; liberation by Soviet troops; treatment by physicians; transfer to the Soviet Union; returning to Kaunas; and traveling to Vilna, Berlin, then Munich, wanting to join her sister in Palestine. Ms. P. discusses being warned of round-ups by people she knew in the Judenrat; losing her will to live in the camps; the importance of being with her mother to her survival; and never really having ended her Holocaust experience, despite her present life. The testimony ends abruptly.
Extent and Medium
4 videocassettes
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People
- P., Tzila.
Corporate Bodies
- Stutthof (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Postwar experiences.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Postwar effects.
- Concentration camps -- Psychological aspects.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Forced labor.
- Jewish councils.
- Hiding.
- Bunkers.
- Soviet occupation.
- Husband -- Death.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Lithuania -- Kaunas.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Husband and wife.
Places
- Munich (Germany)
- Berlin (Germany)
- Gutowo (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Kovno ghetto.
- Kybartai (Lithuania)
- Lithuania.
- Vilnius (Lithuania)
- Kaunas (Lithuania)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat