LEADER 05083cpd a2200637 a 4500001 1001179 005 20180604132447.0 008 910814s1986 ctu eng d 035 (OCoLC)ocn702212767 035 (CStRLIN)CTYV91-A176 035 1001179 035 HVT-682 035 |9AGD0681YL 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)702121300 090 |bHVT-682 100 1 W., Gertrud, |d1915-2014. 245 10 Gertrud W. Holocaust testimony (HVT-682) |h[videorecording] / |cinterviewed by Kathy Strochlic and Lilian Sicular, |fApril 6, 1986. 260 New York, N.Y. : |bVideo Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale, |c1986. 300 1 videorecording (2 hr., 9 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Gertrud W., who was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1915. She describes her pleasant childhood and positive feelings about being Czech; social work school; a job in Brno; German occupation of Sudetenland; conversion to Catholicism with her future husband; return to Prague; deciding to emigrate with her future husband; receiving her father's permission (the only time she saw him cry); smuggling themselves into Poland in May 1939; living under British protection in Kraków; and marriage by a Catholic priest. Mrs. W. describes the outbreak of war; walking to Brest-Litovsk, then Białystok; travel to Vilna (Lithuania had relations with Britain); witnessing a pogrom; obtaining documents; emigration to Britain; work as a nurse; receiving news of her family through American sources until 1942; return to Czechoslovakia with a Czech Red Cross medical team in 1945; her certainty that she would find her family; learning about concentration and extermination camps which shattered her belief; work with survivors in Terezín; return to Prague; and efforts to find her sister and family, which she never did. 520 8 Mrs. W. describes a trip to England and divorce in 1947; life in Prague; emigration to Venezuela in 1948; help from the Joint; marriage and her daughter's birth; emigration to the United States; raising her daughter as a Unitarian; her daughter's marriage to an observant Jew; positive feelings about returning to Judaism; satisfaction as a social worker; her husband's death; and reluctance to tell her daughter of her experiences. 562 |e3 copies: |b3/4 in. master; |b3/4 in. dub; |band 1/2 in. VHS with time coding. 524 Gertrud W. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-682). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 600 10 W., Gertrud, |d1915-2014. 610 20 American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50079799 650 0 Video tapes. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143214 650 0 Women. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85147274 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |vPersonal narratives. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061518 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |vPersonal narratives, Jewish. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148465 650 0 Jewish refugees. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85112308 650 0 Jews |xMigrations. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85070426 650 0 Christian converts from Judaism. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85031724 650 0 Identification (Religion) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064143 651 0 Czechoslovakia. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81032269 651 0 Prague (Czech Republic) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79055764 651 0 Brno (Czech Republic) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79042101 651 0 Kraków (Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79125145 651 0 Brest (Belarus) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81059006 651 0 Białystok (Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81132523 651 0 Vilnius (Lithuania) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82166208 651 0 England. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82068148 610 20 Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96065698 651 0 Caracas (Venezuela) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79097478 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 691 0 Vilna (Poland) 656 7 Social workers. |2lcsh |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85124114 690 4 Survivor-child relations. 690 4 Postwar experiences. 690 4 Postwar effects. 700 1 Strochlic, Kathy, |einterviewer. 700 1 Sicular, Lilian, |einterviewer. 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b1129592 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.0682) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/6q1sf2m93b 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/