Gita L. Holocaust testimony (HVT-130) [videorecording] / interviewed by Michael Moskowitz and Dori Laub, August 1, 1981.

New York, N.Y. : Holocaust Survivors Film Project, 1981.

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

English

Videotape testimony of Gita L., who was born in Vilna in 1893. Mrs. L. recalls the outbreak of World War I after her graduation from gymnasium; her training and years of work as a nurse in refugee camps; studying at the University of Leningrad; and her emigration to Vienna to marry her fiancé. She tells of her political activity in Vienna; antisemitism; Kristallnacht in Sassnitz, when her husband was beaten by a mob and interrogated, and she was imprisoned with him (but released after a short time); her husband's escape with the help of a Nazi soldier; their emigration to the United States; and the lasting effects of her experiences.

June 01, 2002

Gita L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-130). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Gita L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-130). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Oral histories (document genres)