Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Belle S., who was born in Szydłowiec, Poland in approximately 1924, one of four children. She recounts her family's poverty; attending school; increasing antisemitism in the 1930s; German invasion; her father's death from typhus in 1942; her older brother's deportation; hiding; deportation with her brother and his girlfriend to Skarżysko-Kamienna; her brother hiding her and providing food for her when she was sick; slave labor in a munitions factory; transfer with her brother and his girlfriend in 1944 to Częstochowa; hospitalization for one month; the doctor giving her extra food; abandonment by the Germans; liberation by Soviet troops; hospitalization; returning home; reunion with her other brother; traveling to Łódź; marriage; the birth of her son in May 1946; living in several displaced persons camps; her brother's emigration to Canada in 1947; emigration to the United States in 1949; assistance from the Jewish Federation; illness resulting from the camps; her daughter's birth in 1953; divorce in 1966; and not sharing her experiences with her children in order to protect them from her pain.
- Published
- Dallas, Tex. : Memorial Center for Holocaust Studies, 1987
- Interview Date
- September 20, 1987.
- Locale
- Poland
Szydłowiec (Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland)
Łódź (Poland) - Cite As
- Belle S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1362). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 4 copies: 3/4 in. submaster; Betacam SP restoration master; Betacam SP restoration submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 36 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Antisemitism Prewar.
Hiding.
Mutual aid.
Hospitals in concentration camps.
Survivor-child relations.
Postwar effects.
Postwar experiences. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Forced labor. Brothers and sisters. Concentration camp inmates--Family relationships. Refugee camps. Poland. Szydłowiec (Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland) Łódź (Poland) Oral histories (document genres) S., Belle,--1924?- Skarżysko-Kamienna (Concentration camp) Częstochowa (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/4294997
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-30 11:33:00
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