Esther G. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1434)
Videotape testimony of Esther G., who was born in Mutvitsa, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1934. She recalls the warmth of Sabbath observance; Soviet occupation; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions resulting in a sense of isolation; her mother arranging for a farmer to hide Mrs. G. and her bro...
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| Language: | English |
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Peabody, Mass. :
Holocaust Center of the Jewish Federation of the North Shore,
1990
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| Summary: | Videotape testimony of Esther G., who was born in Mutvitsa, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1934. She recalls the warmth of Sabbath observance; Soviet occupation; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions resulting in a sense of isolation; her mother arranging for a farmer to hide Mrs. G. and her brothers; betrayal by the farmer; a German guard letting her go (she never saw her brothers again); being hidden again by the same farmer who had betrayed her; retrieval by her mother, who escaped the ghetto's liquidation (her father was killed); posing as a Christian; hiding in several places while her mother was in the partisans; efforts to conceal but not forget her Jewish identity; and constant fear and loneliness. Mrs. G. recounts evacuation to German camps as the Soviets advanced; reunion with her mother; continued anxiety about revealing her Jewish identity; living with a non-Jewish family in Pinsk; her mother's remarriage; emigration to Austria; living in the Bindermichl displaced persons camp where she started school and began to "sort things out"; emigration to the United States in 1949; and her inability to discuss her experience until 1985 |
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| Item Description: | This Yale-originated record is shareable under Creative Commons license CC0 |
| Physical Description: | 1 videorecording (1 hr., 7 min.) : col |