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Riva K. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4502) interviewed by Ellen Collins,

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Riva K., who was born in 1918 in Kaunas, Lithuania. She describes a happy childhood; moving to Memel (Klaipėda) with her husband; invasion and occupation by the Soviets; occupation by the Germans in 1941; being sent to the Šiauliai ghetto; work in the leather factory; her husband’s arrest and murder; the deportation of her three daughters to Auschwitz (they were killed there); deportation to Landsberg concentration camp; terrible conditions there; work in the kitchen; death march to Dachau; and liberation. She recounts testifying at the Dachau trial; living in Munich; receiving care at St. Ottilien displaced persons camp; meeting and marrying her second husband; and moving to the United States with her new family. Mrs. K discusses feeling guilt for living when the rest of her family was killed; and sharing wartime experience with others, including her children. She shows photographs.
    Author/Creator
    K., Riva, 1918-
    Published
    Brookline, Mass. : Brookline Holocaust Witness Project, 1991
    Interview Date
    May 23, 1991 and June 5, 1991
    Locale
    Lithuania
    Šiauliai
    Kaunas (Lithuania)
    Klaipėda (Lithuania)
    Šiauliai (Lithuania)
    Sankt Ottilien (Germany)
    Munich (Germany)
    Bad Wörishofen (Germany)
    New York (N.Y.)
    Cite As
    Riva K. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4502). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Collins, Ellen, interviewer.
    Notes
    This testimony is in English.

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Physical Description
    1 videorecording (2 hr. 30 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Postwar experiences.
    Survivor-child relationships.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/14106615
    Record last modified:
    2019-07-11 16:57:00
    This page:
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