Hilda G. Holocaust testimony (HVT-718) [videorecording] / interviewed by Ann Gadol and Debbie Weinberg, February 9, 1986.

Dallas, Tex. : Memorial Center for Holocaust Studies, 1986.

1 videorecording (1 hr., 46 min.) : col.

English

Videotape testimony of Hilda G., who was born in Germany (presently Lithuania) and raised in Memel (presently Klaipėda). She recalls her father's early death; her brother's emigration to Palestine in 1939; German invasion; fleeing to relatives in Kaunas; German invasion; ghettoization; forced labor with her sister at the airport; exchanging possessions with peasants for food; an older Wehrmacht soldier providing them with easier work and extra food; transfer to Stutthof with her mother and sister; transfer to a slave labor camp; separation from her sister (she never saw her again); her mother freezing to death on a death march; liberation by Soviet troops; a long hospital recuperation; communication from her brother through the Red Cross; traveling to Łódź, then Munich; reunion with an uncle; and emigration to the United States two years later. Ms. G. notes thirty-five close family members were killed during the Holocaust. She shows photographs

June 01, 2002

Hilda G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-718). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Hilda G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-718). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

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