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• Author/Creator:G., Lidia, 1928-
  
• Title:Lidia G. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3270) [videorecording] / interviewed by B.M. Zabarko and Izabela Davydovna Slucka, August 4, 1994.
  
• Published/Created:Kharkiv, Ukraine : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1994.
  
• Physical Description:1 videorecording (1 hr., 28 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.3270)
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• Notes:Associated material: Peter L. Holocaust testimony [husband] (HVT-3272), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  This testimony is in Russian.
  3 copies: Betacam SP master; 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
  
• Summary:Videotape testimony of Lidia G., who was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine in 1928. She recalls a happy childhood; cordial relations with non-Jews; German invasion in June 1941; her father's draft; German occupation in October; assistance from a German doctor and soldier; ghettoization with her mother in a tractor factory in December; killing of hostages, including her cousin; meeting her future father-in-law who was married to a non-Jew and who gave them his address; his escape; escaping with her mother in January 1942; hearing screaming from the mass murder site; obtaining false papers; hiding with their former janitor, then with her future father-in-law; walking to Chernoglazovka; obtaining papers for her future father-in-law; wandering from village to village; imprisonment and escape in Zenʹkov; wandering to Vyazovoye; being saved by a Ukrainian family; liberation by Soviet troops on August 24, 1943; her mother defending their rescuer from accusations of collaboration; reunion with her father in 1945; marriage in 1951; and her father-in-law's arrest as a German collaborator. Portions of the testimony were recorded at the site of the ghetto and Drobitzky Yar where her relatives were murdered. Mrs. G. discusses her lost youth, and hardships in the postwar years.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Lidia G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3270). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  
• Subjects:G., Lidia, 1928-
  Holocaust survivors.
  Video tapes.
  Women.
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
  World War, 1939-1945--Children.
  Jewish ghettos.
  Jews--Ukraine--Kharkiv.
  World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.
  Mothers and daughters.
  Escapes.
  World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.
  Ukraine.
  Kharkiv (Ukraine)
  Zenʹkov (Ukraine)
  Chernoglazovka (Ukraine)
  Vyazovoye (Ukraine)
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Child survivors.
  Aid by non-Jews.
  Hiding.
  False papers.
  Drobitsky Yar Massacre, Ukraine, 1942.
  Postwar experiences.
  Kharkiv ghetto.
  
• Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
  
• Also listed under:Zabarko, B. M., interviewer.
  Slucka, Izabela Davydovna, interviewer.