- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Regina H., who was born in Będzin, Poland in approximately 1926, the youngest of six children in an affluent family. She recalls speaking Yiddish at home, attending a Jewish girls' school taught in Polish; learning Hebrew at Beit Yacov; fleeing with her family to Olkusz during the German invasion; returning home; hiding during a round-up with assistance from their non-Jewish janitor; forced relocation; living with a Polish woman who helped them a great deal; separation from her family when she was deported to Sosnowiec, then Grünberg; slave labor in a textile factory; civilian workers leaving her food; sharing it with other prisoners; receiving letters and packages from home for a brief period; arrival of a cousin; trading with civilians for extra food with her cousin's help; a death march to Christianstadt in winter 1945; escaping with a friend; posing as non-Jews to seek food and shelter from locals; liberation by Soviet troops; traveling to Łódź via Wrocław; connecting with Jews; returning home in February; finding her sister's friend, but no relatives; meeting her future husband; joining a group for emigration to Israel; traveling to Budapest, Bucharest, then Italy; her daughter's birth in 1946; and emigration to Israel in 1948.
- Author/Creator
- H., Regina, 1926?-
- Published
- Ramat Aviv, Israel : Beth Hatefutsoth, Nahum Goldman Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, 1986
- Interview Date
- September 3, 1986 and December 24, 1986.
- Locale
- Poland
Będzin
Będzin (Poland)
Olkusz (Poland)
Wrocław (Poland)
Łódź (Poland)
Budapest (Hungary)
Bucharest (Romania)
Italy
- Cite As
- Regina H. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1826). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Ani, Harold, interviewer.
Almog, Ornah, interviewer.
- Notes
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This testimony is in Hebrew.
