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Yetta G. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2297)

Title
Yetta G. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2297) [videorecording] / interviewed by Uri Rueveni and Mira Rueveni, March 29, 1992.
Created
Houston, Tex. : Holocaust Education Center and Memorial Museum of Houston, 1992.
Physical Description
1 videorecording (1 hr.) : col.
Language
Yiddish
Notes
Associated material: Gonik, Yetta. Interview 55088. Visual History Archive, USC Shoah Foundation. Access at https://vha.usc.edu.
This testimony is in Yiddish.
Summary
Videotape testimony of Yetta G., who was born in Poland in 1924, the youngest of ten children. She recounts her father and one brother were butchers; attending cheder; German invasion; hiding with a sister and two brothers in a hole they dug under the floor; her parents being taken (she never saw them again); escaping to the forest; hiding for over three years with a Polish farmer who knew her brother and father; occasionally hiding in the forest when Germans were near; liberation by Soviet troops; her brothers' draft into the Soviet military; marriage; traveling to Chełm, then Łódź; learning one of her brothers was in Israel; moving to Florence, Italy; her son's birth; her sister's emigration to the United States; and joining her in 1950. Ms. G. notes sharing her story with her children.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
Yetta G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2297). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Cite as
Yetta G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2297). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Genre/Form
Oral histories (document genres)
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