Cyla D. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2449) [videorecording] / interviewed by Jody Maier and Barbara McPherson, October 31, 1993.

Baltimore, Md. : Baltimore Jewish Council, 1993.

1 videorecording (1 hr., 9 min.) : col.

English

Videotape testimony of Cyla D., who was born in Drohobych, Ukraine (then Poland), in 1915, the youngest of six children of an oil well owner. Mrs. D. describes a happy childhood; her musical education; living with her sister in Stryĭ when the war began; Soviet occupation; marriage to an attorney in 1940; her daughter's birth in 1941; German invasion; her mother being taken in the first round-up (she later learned she was killed); her father committing suicide; giving birth while hiding with her husband in Boryslav (the baby could not be saved); numerous instances of assistance from her father's Polish business acquaintances in several hiding places; arranging a separate hiding place for her daughter; and liberation by Soviet troops. Mrs. D. relates her husband's Zionism; their arrest by the Soviets; release after two months; emigration to Israel, then Canada and the United States; difficulties since her husband could not practice law; teaching piano; her daughter's emigration to Israel; and her grandchildren's professions. Mrs. D. reviews vivid details of life in hiding and beautiful memories of her siblings.

June 01, 2002

Cyla D. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2449). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Cyla D. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2449). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

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