Idessa C. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Idessa C., who was born in Staszów, Russia (presently Poland) in 1915, the youngest of five children. She recounts working at a a magazine; German invasion; ghettoization; slave labor in Kielce at HASAG Granat; transfer to Skarżysko-Kamienna; slave labor in a munitions factory; transfer to Leipzig in 1944; slave labor in a clothing factory; liberation; transport to Łódź; contact with her brother's family in Argentina (her brother had died); and joining them in 1946. Ms. C. notes the difficultly of conveying what she experienced to those who were "not there."
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette
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This testimony can only be viewed at Yale by Yale faculty and/or students.
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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. This testimony or excerpts from it cannot be used for publication.
Rules and Conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- C., Idessa, -- 1915-
Corporate Bodies
- Hugo Schneider Aktiengesellschaft.
- Kielce (Concentration camp)
- Skarżysko-Kamienna (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Postwar experiences.
- Forced labor.
- Jews -- Poland -- Staszów (Województwo Świętokrzyskie,)
- Jewish ghettos.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Staszów ghetto.
- Łódź (Poland)
- Staszów (Województwo Świętokrzyskie, Poland)
- Russia.
- Leipzig (Germany : Concentration camp)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat