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• Author/Creator:I., Paulina, 1920-
  
• Title:Paulina I. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4181) [videorecording], October 26, 2000.
  
• Published/Created:Tel Aviv, Israel : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 2000.
  
• Physical Description:1 videorecording (1 hr., 9 min.) : col.
  

• Yale Holdings

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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.4181)
    For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
    

   
• Notes:This testimony is in Hebrew.
  2 copies: Betacam SP master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
  
• Summary:Videotape testimony of Paulina I., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1920, the youngest of eight children. She recounts attending a Polish school; observing antisemitism at school; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; one brother and two sisters emigrating to Palestine in the 1930s; another brother's premature death; her brother's visit from Palestine in 1938 (he urged them to emigrate but her father refused); German invasion; fleeing without her parents' knowledge; living in Białystok, Minsk, and Orsha; working at a Soviet factory; returning to Białystok; deportation with her boyfriend to a Soviet camp in Arkhangelʹsk; marriage; her husband preventing her from committing suicide when she learned she was pregnant; her son's birth (he was the only baby to survive from their camp); transfer to Samarqand, then an agricultural area; working as a nurse; returning to Samarqand in 1944, then to Warsaw after the war; learning no one from her family had survived; traveling to Łódź; sending her son with a children's group to Paris; joining him two years later; emigration to Israel; reunion with two sisters; divorce; remarriage; and the birth of another son.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Paulina I. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4181). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  
• Subjects:I., Paulina, 1920-
  World Hashomer Hatzair.
  Holocaust survivors.
  Video tapes.
  Women.
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
  Jews--Migrations.
  Jewish refugees.
  Suicide.
  Poland.
  Warsaw (Poland)
  Białystok (Poland)
  Minsk (Belarus)
  Orsha (Belarus)
  Arkhangelʹsk (Russia)
  Samarqand (Uzbekistan)
  Paris (France)
  Łódź (Poland)
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Antisemitism--Prewar.
  Soviet occupation.
  Antisemitism--Postwar.
  Postwar experiences.
  
• Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)