Marie W. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3098) [videorecording] / interviewed by Ernest Forrai, November 1, 1990.

Vancouver, B.C. : Vancouver Holocaust Centre Society, 1990.

1 videorecording (1 hr., 19 min.) : col.

English

Videotape testimony of Marie W., who was born in 1914. She recalls growing up in Zaliztsi, Poland (presently Ukraine); strained relations between Poles and Ukrainians; Soviet occupation; marriage in 1940; German invasion; a mass killing of Jewish men, including her sister's boyfriend; hiding during round-ups; becoming pregnant; loss of the baby in her sixth month; going into hiding; learning her sister and parents had been killed; being hidden by a Ukrainian man, then a non-Jewish woman, then the man again; fleeing to the forests when it became too dangerous; building a bunker; living there with her husband, his two brothers, and another boy; the two brothers leaving (they were killed); liberation by Soviets in spring 1944; living in Lʹviv for about a year; moving to Kraków; her daughter's birth; and emigration to Canada in 1949. Ms. W. discusses her nightmares, particularly of her sister, and the difficulty of recalling such painful memories for this recording.

June 01, 2002

Marie W. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3098). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Marie W. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3098). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Oral histories (document genres)