Dina O. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Dina O., who was born in Białystok, Poland in 1932. She recounts attending a Jewish school; emigration of many relatives to Argentina; German invasion; her father fleeing to Vilnius; Soviet occupation; her mother organizing three unsuccessful attempts to smuggle them to Vilnius; a month in a Soviet jail with her mother and sister during one attempt; reaching Vilnius in June 1940; reunion with her father; obtaining visas for Argentina; acquiring transit visas from the Japanese consul; a month in Moscow; traveling to Vladivostok in March 1941; a month stay in Kōbe, Japan; the seventy-two day sea journey to Buenos Aires; reunion with relatives; and completing architectural training in 1957. Her sister joins her briefly but notes few memories since she was only five. Ms. O. shows documents and photographs.
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
- O., Dina, -- 1932-
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- Refugees, Jewish.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Soviet.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Sisters.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Soviet occupation.
- Child survivors.
- Postwar experiences.
Places
- Moscow (Russia)
- Vilnius (Lithuania)
- Kōbe-shi (Japan)
- Vladivostok (Russia)
- Białystok (Poland)
- Poland.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat