Golda S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-924) [videorecording] / interviewed by Paul Mohl and Tina Rauch, February 2 and October 25, 1987.

San Antonio, Tex. : Children of the Holocaust-Second Generation of San Antonio, 1987.

2 videorecordings (2 hr. and 1 hr., 8 min.) : col

English

Videotape testimony of Golda S., who was born in Sokalʹ, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1922, one of eight children. She recounts a weaving apprenticeship in Lʹviv; increased antisemitism in the mid 1930s; Soviet occupation of Sokalʹ in 1939; German invasion in 1941; anti-Jewish violence and restrictions; ghettoization; escaping from a deportation train; returning home; being hidden in a monastery; leaving when her life was in danger; encountering a woman on a train who offered her a job in Kraków; discovery and incarceration in Płaszów; escaping four weeks later; obtaining false papers; working in Braunau; and saving orphaned children as the war ended. Mrs. S. notes she never lost faith in God and survived due to her faith and sense of purpose.

June 01, 2002

Golda S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-924). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Golda S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-924). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Oral histories (document genres)