- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Betty R., who was born in Kielce, Poland. She recalls her family's active membership in revisionist Zionist organizations; an affluent childhood; German invasion when she was thirteen; her father and one brother fleeing to the Soviet zone (her father perished); public humiliation of Jews; forced labor; ghettoization; marriage; a mass killing of children; deportation with her husband to Pionki; slave labor in an ammunition factory; a public hanging; escaping with her husband; hiding in the woods; arrest; deportation to Oranienburg; her transfer to Ravensbrück; efforts to maintain morale; liberation by the Swedish Red Cross; transfer to Sweden; reunion with her brother; joining her husband illegally in Salzburg via Kraków and emigration to the United States. Mrs R. discusses depression resulting from her experiences; her sense of anger and bitterness as a survivor; and her wish that people understand the impossible circumstances imposed upon Jews and that they did not "go to death like sheep."
- Author/Creator
- R., Betty.
- Published
- Wilmette, Ill. : Holocaust Education Foundation, 1987
- Interview Date
- March 29, 1987.
- Locale
- Poland
Kielce
Kielce (Poland)
Sweden
Kraków (Poland)
Salzburg (Austria)
- Cite As
- Betty R. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1002). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Roth, Elsa, interviewer.
Friedland, Robbie, interviewer.
- Notes
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Associated material: Morris R. Holocaust testimony [husband] (HVT-1007), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
