Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Blanca B., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1919. She recalls her family's affluence; moving to Katowice; attending public school; her fierce Polish patriotism; antisemitism starting in 1936; attending the Sorbonne in 1938; returning home for vacation in 1939; German invasion; moving with her family to Warsaw; escaping with her parents, brother, and his fiancée to Lʹviv; Soviet occupation; deportation to central Russia; working in a forest; German invasion; traveling to Tashkent, then Samarqand; pervasive illness and hunger; two brief jailings in her father's place; marriage in 1942; returning to Katowice, then Warsaw with her husband and mother-in-law after the war; violent antisemitism; traveling to Salzburg, then Paris; her son's birth; emigration to the United States; her daughter's birth; her husband's death two years later; and bringing her parents to join her. Ms. B. notes that those who could fully tell the entire tragedy were all killed. She shows photographs.
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1990
- Locale
- Poland
Warsaw (Poland)
Katowice (Poland)
Paris (France)
Lʹviv (Ukraine)
Tashkent (Uzbekistan)
Samarqand (Uzbekistan)
Salzburg (Austria) - Cite As
- Blanca B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1597). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 16 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Postwar experiences.
Antisemitism Postwar.
Soviet occupation.
Antisemitism Prewar. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jews--Migrations. Jewish refugees. Husband and wife. Families. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Soviet. Poland. Warsaw (Poland) Katowice (Poland) Paris (France) Lʹviv (Ukraine) Tashkent (Uzbekistan) Samarqand (Uzbekistan) Salzburg (Austria) Oral histories (document genres) B., Blanca,--1919-
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4295739
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:25:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4295739
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