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• Author/Creator:S., Sofia, 1917-
  
• Title:Sofia S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1929) [videorecording] / interviewed by Vera Paisner, November 12, 1992.
  
• Published/Created:New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1992.
  
• Physical Description:1 videorecording (58 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.1929)
    For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
    

   
• Notes:This testimony is in Polish with some Yiddish.
  3 copies: 3/4 in. master; 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
  
• Summary:Videotape testimony of Sofia S., who was born in Boryslav, Poland in 1917. She describes her family background; marriage; German invasion; her husband's draft into the Soviet army; her son's birth in September 1939; her mother's deportation; fleeing to Stanisławów to save her son; pretending to be half Jewish when interrogated by Ukrainians; being hidden by Poles; returning to Boryslav; hiding her baby with a Polish family; Germans killing her son; being forced into the ghetto; brief imprisonment; release with assistance from her cousin; working as a cook for a German officer; deportation with her father to Płaszów; her father's deportation to Wieliczka in 1943; her job removing gold dental work from dead bodies; deportation to Auschwitz in the summer of 1943; slave labor in a stone quarry; transfer to a cotton-mill in Lichtwerden-Freudenthal; receiving extra food from her friend; and liberation by Soviet troops. Mrs. S. recounts meeting her husband in Kraków; learning none of her family had survived; the birth of two children in Katowice; and emigration to Israel. She reflects on being unable to fully describe all the atrocities she experienced and considers herself lucky to have survived.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Sofia S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1929). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  
• Subjects:S., Sofia, 1917-
  Płaszów (Concentration camp)
  Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
  Holocaust survivors.
  Video tapes.
  Women.
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
  Forced labor.
  World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.
  Children--Death.
  Jewish ghettos.
  Fathers and daughters.
  Poland.
  Boryslav (Ukraine)
  Stanislav (Ukraine)
  Kraków (Poland)
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Hiding.
  Aid by non-Jews.
  Postwar effects.
  Mutual aid.
  Postwar experiences.
  Stanisławów (Poland)
  Boryslaw (Poland)
  Lichtwerden-Freudenthal (Czechoslovakia : Concentration camp)
  
• Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
  
• Also listed under:Paisner, Vera, interviewer.