Betty G. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 4150
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Betty G., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1914. She recalls a comfortable life; frequently hearing antisemitic remarks; attending a Jewish school; marriage; German invasion; her husband's mobilization; anti-Jewish laws; receiving messages from her husband; escaping with her sister to join him in Soviet-occupied Baranavichy in February 1940; separation from her sister (she never saw her again); arrest with her husband in June; a six-week journey to Siberia; forced labor in a remote camp; freezing conditions and hunger; being freed when Germany attacked the Soviet Union; a difficult journey to Turkestan, then Samarqand; traveling to Poland in 1946; encountering antisemitism in Lʹviv; living in a displaced persons camp in Germany; joining friends in Paris; her daughter's birth; and emigration to Australia in 1951, then to the United States in 1964. Ms. G. notes that almost her entire family was killed and difficulty believing she and her husband survived such horrendous conditions for six years.

Extent and Medium

2 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

  • G., Betty, -- 1914-

Subjects

  • Video tapes.
  • Women.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor -- Soviet Union.
  • Refugees, Jewish.
  • Jews -- Migrations.
  • Escapes.
  • Sisters.
  • Husband and wife.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • Soviet occupation.
  • Antisemitism -- Prewar.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Antisemitism -- Postwar.
  • Refugee camps.
  • Concentration camps -- Soviet Union.
  • Forced labor -- Soviet Union -- History -- 20th century.

Places

  • Poland.
  • Siberia (Russia)
  • Warsaw (Poland)
  • Baranavichy (Belarus)
  • Turkestanskai︠a︡ A.S.S.R. (R.S.F.S.R.)
  • Samarqand (Uzbekistan)
  • Germany.
  • Paris (France)
  • Australia.
  • Lʹviv (Ukraine)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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