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• Author/Creator:W., Genia, 1914-2010.
  
• Title:Genia W. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2259) [videorecording] / interviewed by Dana L. Kline and Frances Proctor Cohen, January 20, 1994.
  
• Published/Created:New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1994.
  
• Physical Description:1 videorecording (1 hr., 56 min.) : col.
  

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  • Location:LSF-Physical copy for request by library staff only
    Staff Request for Use in Manuscripts and Archives
    
    
  • Call Number: MS 1322
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  •   Digital testimony (mssa.hvt.2259)
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• Notes:3 copies: 3/4 in. master; 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
  
• Access and use:This testimony, or excerpts from it, may not be broadcast on television.
  
• Summary:Videotape testimony of Genia W., who was born in Brzesko Nowe, Poland in 1914. She recalls her family's move to Proszowice, then Kraków; their extreme poverty; her marriage; German invasion; fleeing to Brzesko Nowe; her husband escaping east (he was killed); joining her oldest brother in the Kraków ghetto; forced labor at the Madritsch factory; aid from a non-Jewish supervisor; making shirts for Amon Goeth, the Kommandant of Płaszów; and liquidation of the ghetto when many were killed. Mrs. W. describes brutality and frequent killings in Płaszów; her future husband arranging her transfer to Oskar Schindler's factory; deportation with three hundred women to Auschwitz; compulsory blood donations; transfer after three weeks to Schindler's factory in Brněnec, Czechoslovakia; Schindler's and his wife's many kindnesses, including nursing critically ill Jews from a deportation train; Schindlers' departure with seven Jews as Soviet troops approached; and liberation. She recounts returning to Kraków seeking surviving family; a pogrom in which two Jews were killed; marriage in Bytom and emigration in 1968 to Austria and to the United States in 1970. Mrs. W. notes her reverence for Oskar Schindler and shows photographs and documents.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Genia W. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2259). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  
• Subjects:W., Genia, 1914-2010.
  Schindler, Oskar, 1908-1974.
  Göth, Amon, 1908-1946.
  Brünnlitz (Concentration camp)
  Płaszów (Concentration camp)
  Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
  Holocaust survivors.
  Video tapes.
  Women.
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
  World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.
  Families.
  Brothers and sisters.
  Forced labor.
  Jews--Poland--Kraków.
  Jewish ghettos.
  World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue.
  Poland.
  Nowe Brzesko (Poland)
  Bytom (Poland)
  Kraków (Poland)
  Proszowice (Poland)
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Aid by non-Jews.
  Antisemitism--Postwar.
  Husband--Death.
  Mutual aid.
  Postwar experiences.
  Kraków ghetto.
  
• Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
  
• Also listed under:Kline, Dana L., interviewer.
  Cohen, Frances Proctor, interviewer.