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Hela S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-68) interviewed by Laurel Vlock and Harvey Ruben,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-68

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Hela S., who was born in Będzin, Poland, in 1911, into an Orthodox family of twelve children. Mrs. S. describes extreme antisemitism during her childhood; her close friendship with a non-Jew; her education and marriage; mass murders during the German occupation; the deportation of the Jewish men of Będzin; and her and her family's internment in the Srodula ghetto. She tells of her slave labor in Gleiwitz; the death march to Ravensbrück; and her liberation by the Russians. Postwar experiences include her return to Będzin; her travels in search of family members; and her reunion with her sisters and her husband. Throughout the testimony, Mrs. S. offers many detailed descriptions of the events she describes.
Author/Creator: S., Hela, 1911-
Published: New Haven, Conn. : Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale, 1983
Interview Date: January 6, 1983.
Locale: Poland
Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie)
Będzin (Poland)
Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie, Poland)
Gliwice (Poland)
Cite As: Hela S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-68). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Vlock, Laurel, interviewer.
Ruben, Harvey, interviewer.
Notes: Unpublished finding aid available in repository; 1/2 in. VHS is linked to finding aid by time coding.

Additional material is available in the repository.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 3 copies: 3/4 in. master; 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (2 hrs. 51 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Mass killings.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. Forced labor. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jews--Poland--Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie) Jewish ghettos. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Poland. Będzin (Poland) Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie, Poland) Gliwice (Poland) Death marches. Oral histories (document genres) S., Hela,--1911- Ravensbrück (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/616921
Record last modified:: 2018-05-29 11:58:00
This page:: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt616921

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