Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Regina P., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1925. She recalls her comfortable childhood; German invasion; anti-Jewish regulations; ghettoization; working in a brush shop; one sister's deportation to Treblinka; a Passover seder; hiding in bunkers during the uprising; deportation with her family to Majdanek; separation from her father; transfer ten weeks later with her sister to Auschwitz (her mother remained in Majdanek); digging ditches; separation from her pregnant sister (she never saw her again); her emotional state during selections; working in potato fields and sorting clothing; public hanging of a barrack mate who tried to escape; being interrogated after the Sonderkommando uprising; the death march to Gleiwitz in January 1945; transfer to Ravensbrück, then Malchow; a German guard assisting her to escape from the death march from Malchow; and liberation by United States troops on April 16, 1945. Mrs. P. describes traveling with her girlfriend to Frankfurt; marriage in the Landsberg displaced persons camp; and emigrating to the United States in 1949. She reflects on claustrophobia resulting from her war experiences; the importance of friendship and mutual aid to her survival; dreams of her grandfather and sisters; and sharing her experience with her children.
- Published
- Peabody, Mass. : Holocaust Center of the Jewish Federation of the North Shore, 1992
- Interview Date
- April 23, 1992.
- Locale
- Poland
Warsaw
Warsaw (Poland)
Frankfurt am Main (Germany) - Cite As
- Regina P. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2272). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (2 hr., 1 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Child survivors.
Postwar effects.
Mutual aid.
Postwar experiences.
Survivor-child relations.
Hiding.
Bunkers.
Concentration camps Revolts.
Jewish ghettos Religious life and customs. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Jewish ghettos. Forced labor. Sisters. Dreams. Concentration camps--Psychological aspects. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Friendship. Jews--Poland--Warsaw. Mothers and daughters. Poland. Warsaw (Poland) Oral histories (document genres) Frankfurt am Main (Germany) Death marches. Refugee camps. Escapes. P., Regina,--1925- Landsberg am Lech (Displaced persons camp) Majdanek (Concentration camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Ravensbrück (Concentration camp) Malchow (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/4287209
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-30 11:33:00
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