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• Author/Creator:T., Pnina, 1913-
  
• Title:Pnina T. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1073) [videorecording] / interviewed by Tamar Shushan and Raya Adler, July 27, 1984.
  
• Published/Created:Ramat Aviv, Israel : Beth Hatefutsoth, Nahum Goldman Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, 1984.
  
• Physical Description:1 videorecording (3 hr., 3 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.1073)
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• Notes:Related material: Avraham T. Holocaust testimony [husband](HVT-3332), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  This testimony is in Hebrew.
  4 copies: 3/4 in. dub; Betacam SP restoration master; Betacam SP restoration submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
  
• Summary:Videotape testimony of Pnina T., who was born in Pilviškiai, Russia (presently Lithuania) in 1913. She recalls attending high school in Kaunas and university in Vilnius; marriage in 1934; living in Kaunas; her daughter's birth; plans to emigrate to Palestine; briefly visiting there with her husband in 1939 to finalize arrangements; Soviet occupation; not being able to emigrate when the borders were sealed; deportation of her parents and one brother to Siberia; German invasion in June 1941; arrest by Lithuanians; her daughter's non-Jewish nanny claiming to be the child's mother; her arrest as well; separation from the men (she never saw her husband again); release with her daughter and the nanny after three days; sending packages to her husband through the nanny; futile efforts to obtain his release; ghettoization; learning her brother, brother-in-law, husband, and other relatives had been murdered; hiding her daughter during round-ups; smuggling food with help from a German guard; a Jewish man (her future husband) bringing her packages from the nanny; learning through the Jewish underground that one of her brothers was alive in Vilnius; participating in a literary club; pregnant women having abortions or hiding their pregnancies since giving birth was illegal; her future husband and the nanny arranging for her daughter to be hidden, with assistance from a priest; bringing her to a monastery; returning to the ghetto; a nun bringing her daughter to live with a widow in a village; learning her daughter was ill; escaping to visit her; remaining with the widow and her daughter; arranging for her future husband to join them; and liberation by Soviet troops. Ms. T. notes they are still in touch with their rescuer and her son.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Pnina T. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1073). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  
• Subjects:T., Pnina, 1913-
  Holocaust survivors.
  Video tapes.
  Women.
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
  Jewish ghettos.
  Jews--Lithuania--Kaunas.
  World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance.
  Mothers and daughters.
  Husband and wife.
  Escapes.
  Monasteries.
  Russia.
  Pilviškiai (Lithuania)
  Kaunas (Lithuania)
  Vilnius (Lithuania)
  Palestine.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Soviet occupation.
  Aid by non-Jews.
  Husband--Death.
  Hiding.
  Kovno ghetto.
  
• Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
  
• Also listed under:Shushan, Tamar, interviewer.
  Adler, Raya, interviewer.