Dola K. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Dola K., who was born in Kraków, Poland in approximately 1929. She recounts her family's affluence and Zionism; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions including wearing an armband and expulsion from school; ghettoization two years later; deportations including her grandparents; continuing to study despite the hardships; a mass killing of children including many of her friends; her father obtaining forged American citizenship papers; imprisonment; deportation with her family, her father's siblings, and their families to Bergen-Belsen; placement in a section for foreigners; organized study groups; learning Hebrew and dancing; celebrating Hanukkah and Passover; and liberation from a train transport by United States troops. Ms. K. discusses the importance of studying and group activities to her survival; her mother's efforts to keep up their morale; and feeling more Jewish in Bergen-Belsen than before or after.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.
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Process Info
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People
- K., Dola, -- 1929?-
Corporate Bodies
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Czech.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Jews -- Poland -- Kraków.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- False papers.
- Mass killings.
- Child survivors.
- Concentration camp inmates -- Religious life.
- Concentration camps -- Psychological aspects.
- Concentration camp inmates -- Family relationships.
- Fathers and daughters.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Mutual aid.
Places
- Poland.
- Kraków (Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat