Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Orna B., who was born in Włocławek, Poland in 1928. She recounts joining Hashomer Hatzair; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions and violence; deportations starting in December; her family traveling to Warsaw; staying in Kraków and Tarnów; her grandfather's murder in June 1942; ghettoization; forced labor; hiding in a bunker during round-ups; her father convincing Amon Goeth to bring them to Płaszów; a sadistic public hanging; her father providing extra food; their transfer to Wieliczka; transfer to Auschwitz/Birkenau with her mother (she never saw her father again) in August 1944; Hungarian prisoners observing Yom Kippur; arrival of relatives from Holland; separation from her mother in November; transfer to Mühlhausen; stealing food; transfer to Bergen-Belsen in February 1945; lice and corpses everywhere; contracting typhus; and liberation by British troops. Mrs. B. recalls living in Diepholz and Lingen; taking food from Germans in revenge; hearing from relatives in Paris and Tel Aviv; moving to Paris; learning her mother had survived; illegal emigration to Palestine from Marseille in 1946; British incarceration in Cyprus and ʻAtlit; and reunion with her mother. She discusses intergroup relations in the camps; the importance of family to her survival; testifying at war crime trials; and pervasive memories of the camps.
- Published
- Ramat Aviv, Israel : Beth Hatefutsoth, Nahum Goldman Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, 1984
- Interview Date
- July 6, 1984.
- Locale
- Poland
Tarnów (Województwo Małopolskie)
Paris (France)
Marseille (France)
Warsaw (Poland)
Palestine
Włocławek (Poland)
Kraków (Poland)
Tarnów (Województwo Małopolskie, Poland)
ʻAtlit (Israel)
Cyprus
Diepholz (Germany)
Lingen (Lower Saxony, Germany) - Cite As
- Orna B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1070). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
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This testimony is in Hebrew.
Physical Details
- Language
- Hebrew
- Copies
- 2 copies:b and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (2 hrs., 38 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Mutual aid.
Child survivors.
Hiding.
Postwar effects.
Postwar experiences.
Bunkers. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. War crime trials. Fathers and daughters. Forced labor. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Psychological aspects. Jews--Poland--Tarnów (Województwo Małopolskie) Jewish ghettos. Mothers and daughters. Revenge. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Concentration camp inmates--Family relationships. Concentration camps--Sociological aspects. Concentration camp inmates--Religious life. Poland. Paris (France) Marseille (France) Warsaw (Poland) Palestine--Emigration and immigration. Włocławek (Poland) Kraków (Poland) Tarnów (Województwo Małopolskie, Poland) ʻAtlit (Israel) Cyprus. Diepholz (Germany) Lingen (Lower Saxony, Germany) Oral histories (document genres) B., Orna,--1928- Göth, Amon,--1908-1946. World Hashomer Hatzair. Płaszów (Concentration camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp) Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) Wieliczka (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
-
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4283142
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-29 11:46:00
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