- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Adele B., who was born in Bełchatów, Poland in 1925, the oldest of three sisters. She recalls her large and close extended family; German invasion; working in a factory producing German uniforms, her father thinking it would keep her safe; her deportation with other factory workers to the Łódź ghetto in 1942; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944, then to another camp a few days later; slave labor in a munitions factory; a forced march and train transport to Theresienstadt in April 1945; others helping her because she was one of the youngest; helping a dying friend by giving her sugar to revive her; liberation by Soviet troops; working in the hospital; becoming ill with typhus; a close friend visiting her to say goodbye; insisting on leaving with her friend; traveling to Landsberg displaced persons camp; hospitalization there; meeting her future husband; their wedding in March 1946; her son's birth; her husband's ORT training; emigration to the United States in 1949 to join relatives; and the births of three more children. Ms. B. discusses two trips to Bełchatów with her children and shows photographs.
- Author/Creator
- B., Adele, 1925-
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 2013
- Interview Date
- April 16, 2013.
- Locale
- Poland
Łódź
Bełchatów (Poland)
- Cite As
- Adele B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4452). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Rudof, Joanne Weiner, interviewer.
Millen, Susan, interviewer.
