Rachel G. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2600) [videorecording] / interviewed by Joni-Sue Blinderman, April 26, 1993.

New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1993.

1 videorecording (2 hr., 25 min.) : col.

English

Associated material: Gottlieb, Rachel. Interview 18895. Visual History Archive, USC Shoah Foundation. Access at https://vha.usc.edu.

Videotape testimony of Rachel G., who was born in Pacanów, Poland in 1927. She recalls a close and large extended family; their orthodoxy; attending public and Hebrew schools; visiting Łódź; German invasion in September 1939; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization; her father's death resulting from a beating; deportation to Skarżysko-Kamienna in October 1942; slave labor in a HASAG munitions factory; prisoners helping each other; cruel officials, including Fritz Bartenschlager; assignment to an office position leading to improved conditions; transfer to Częstochowa in summer 1944; slave labor in a munitions factory; sabotage resulting in public hangings; abandonment by German guards in January 1945; liberation; returning home; antisemitic threats and attacks; moving to Częstochowa, then Łódź; marriage to a cousin in November 1945; traveling to Prague, then Munich; living in Wasserburg displaced persons camp; her daughter's birth in October 1947; joining relatives in the United States in 1949; and her second daughter's birth in 1953. Ms. G. notes her mother and younger brothers were killed in Treblinka; emotional numbing in the camps; permanent health problems resulting from injuries in concentration camps; and the importance of luck to her survival. She shows photographs.

June 01, 2002

Rachel G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2600). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Rachel G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2600). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

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