Hiding

These testimony segments focus on physical concealment (as an individual or part of a family) to avoid ghettoization, incarceration, deporation, or other forms of persecution

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  Hy Abrahms

  Language: English

  Jewish Survivor

  Hy remembers his father's decision to hide the family after Jews were ordered to leave their homes. He recalls the betrayal of his family by a man they knew.

  Gender: Male
  DOB: Aug 15, 1924
  City of birth: Novoselice
  Country of birth: Czechoslovakia
  Ghettos: Mátészalka (Hungary)
  Camps: Auschwitz II-Birkenau (Poland), Ebensee (Austria), Mauthausen (Austria), Melk (Austria), Krakau-Plaszow (Poland)
  Went into hiding: Yes
  Other experiences: displaced persons camps
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  Marcia Spies

  Language: English

  Jewish Survivor

  During the war, Marcia hid with a family with two older daughters who were very kind to her. This was a huge sacrifice this family took to keep Marcia in their home.

  Gender: Female
  DOB: Dec 12, 1929
  City of birth: Kaunas
  Country of birth: Lithuania
  Ghettos: Kaunas (Lithuania)
  Camps: Kauen (Kaunas, Lithuania)
  Went into hiding: Yes
  Other experiences: concealment of Jewish identity

   
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  Kristine Keren

  Language: English

  Jewish Survivor

  Kristine Keren remembers how she and her father escaped from the Lwów ghetto in Poland and spent fourteen months hiding in the sewers beneath the city.

  Gender: Female
  
  DOB: October 28, 1935
  
  City of Birth: Lwów (Poland)
  
  Country of Birth: Poland
  
  Ghettos: Lwów (Poland : Ghetto)
  
  Went into hiding: Yes
  
  Other experiences: ghetto escapes, roundup evasion