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• Author/Creator:G., Krystyna, 1938-
  
• Title:Krystyna G. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3178) [videorecording] / interviewed by Michel Sobelman, May 13, 1995.
  
• Published/Created:Kraków, Poland : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1995.
  
• Physical Description:1 videorecording (1 hr., 13 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.3178)
    For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
    

   
• Notes:Associated material: Gil, Krystyna. Interview 30163. Visual History Archive, USC Shoah Foundation. Access at https://vha.usc.edu.
  This testimony is in Polish.
  2 copies: Betacam SP master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
  
• Summary:Videotape testimony of Krystyna G., a Romani who was born in Szczurowa, Poland in 1938. She recalls cordial relations with Poles; on July 3, 1943, the mass killing of the men, then women and children including her parents and siblings; escaping with her grandmother while the Germans were taking a break; returning home; seeing her grandfather's corpse where he had been shot; traveling to Rzemienowice; posing as Poles; moving to Pawłowice; living a year and a half with a Pole who knew their identity; hiding two Jewish men who were shot after leaving; liberation by Soviet troops; moving to another city, then returning to Szczurowa several years later; attending elementary and vocational school; moving to Nowa Huta; and marriage to a Romani. Mrs. G. discusses her gratitude to her grandmother; maintaining Romani cultural life; her presidency of the Kraków Romani association; lack of unity among the Romanies; a monument to the murdered Romanies in Szczurowa; commemorative activities there and in Auschwitz/Birkenau; lack of compensation to Romani victims; and sharing her experiences with her grandchildren.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Krystyna G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3178). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  
• Subjects:G., Krystyna, 1938-
  Video tapes.
  Women.
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Romani.
  World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.
  Romanies--Nazi persecution--Poland.
  Romanies--Poland--History--20th century.
  World War, 1939-1945--Children.
  Grandparent and child.
  Escapes.
  Poland.
  Szczurowa (Poland)
  Rzemienowice (Poland)
  Pawłowice (Poland)
  Nowa Huta (Kraków, Poland)
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Child survivors.
  Mass killings.
  Hiding.
  Aid by non-Romanies.
  Postwar experiences.
  Survivor-child relations.
  
• Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
  
• Also listed under:Sobelman, Michel, interviewer.