Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Fran L., who was born in Chrzanów, Poland in 1924. In addition to information in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-675), Ms. L. recalls receiving food from her family's former maid who was a Polish civilian worker at Neusalz; transfer from Gross-Rosen to Flossenbürg, then Bergen-Belsen; meeting her husband through his uncle, an official at the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp; friendship with Hadassah and Joseph Rosensaft; and living in Celle after she was married. She discusses her continuing belief in God and commitment to orthodoxy; traveling to Poland with her children fifteen years ago; and plans for a similar trip with her grandchildren soon. She shows photographs and documents.
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 2007
- Interview Date
- May 2, 2007.
- Locale
- Poland
Chrzanów
Chrzanów (Poland)
Kraków (Poland)
Celle (Germany) - Cite As
- Fran L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4395). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
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Additional documents are available in the repository,
Related material: Fran L. Holocaust testimony (HVT-675), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 3 copies: DVCam master; Betacam SP submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (2 hr., 14 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Child survivors.
Hiding.
Mutual aid.
Aid by non-Jews.
Postwar experiences.
Survivor-child relations. - 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 children in the Holocaust. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Chrzanów. Forced labor. Death marches. Refugee camps. Faith. Poland. Chrzanów (Poland) Kraków (Poland) Celle (Germany) Oral histories (document genres) L., Fran,--1924- Rosensaft, Hadassah,--1912-1997. Rosensaft, Josef,--1911-1975. Neusalz (Concentration camp) Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp) Flossenbürg (Concentration camp) Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen. Sosnowiec (Concentration camp)
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/7868581
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:29:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt7868581
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