Lala F. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1676) [videorecording] / interviewed by Raya C. Schapiro and Elsa Roth, January 20, 1991.

Wilmette, Ill. : Holocaust Education Foundation, 1991.

1 videorecording (1 hr., 17 min.) : col.

English

Associated material: Fishman, Lala. Interview 2860. Visual History Archive, USC Shoah Foundation. Access at https://vha.usc.edu.

Videotape testimony of Lala F., who was born in Kamʹi︠a︡net︠s︡ʹ-Podilʹsʹkyi︡, Russia in 1922. She recalls her family fleeing from the Bolsheviks to Lwów, Poland; attending a private school; her sister's birth in 1931; Soviet occupation; her mother assisting Jewish refugees from Poland; her brother's draft into the Soviet army; her father's disappearance during a round-up; refusing to move into the ghetto; obtaining a work permit; arrest during a round-up; escaping from Janowska (she later learned that her father saw her there); obtaining false papers for her mother, sister, brother's girlfriend, and herself; leaving Lwów together; their arrest in Sambor; her release after she asserted her non-Jewish identity (she never saw her mother and sister again); registering as a non-Jew in Kraków; arrest; release due to her insistence she was not Jewish; moving to Katowice, then Radom; liberation in Katowice; contacting her uncle and brother; still fearing to admit her Jewishness; assistance from the Joint in Kassel displaced persons camp; marriage to a Joint employee; and emigration to the United States. Mrs. F. attributes her survival to luck and her aggressiveness.

June 01, 2002

Lala F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1676). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Lala F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1676). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

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