LEADER 04179cpd a2200541za 4500001 1009576 005 20180604132447.0 008 911205s1989 ctu eng d 035 (OCoLC)ocn702212881 035 (CStRLIN)CTYV91-A257 035 1009576 035 HVT-1400 035 |9AGF6742YL 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)702121333 090 |bHVT-1400 100 1 J., Esther, |d1918- 245 10 Esther J. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1400) |h[videorecording] / |cinterviewed by Susan Morris and Elaine Tannenbaum, |fOctober 26, 1989. 260 Ventnor, N.J. : |bFederation of Jewish Agencies of Atlantic County/Stockton State College, Holocaust Oral History Project, |c1989. 300 1 videorecording (2 hr., 2 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Esther J., who was born in Wieluń, Poland in 1918. Mrs. J. recalls her close family of nine children; their religious observances; antisemitism after 1933; her engagement; her father's death immediately before the war; her fiance serving in the Polish army; German invasion in September 1939; fleeing with her family to join her fiance in the Soviet zone; and returning home to find their estate looted by Poles. She describes her family being fingerprinted by the Gestapo; leaving for Łódź with her fiance and mother; marriage; fleeing to Kovelʹ in the Soviet zone; transport to Siberia with other family members; conditions of severe physical deprivation; her son's birth in September 1940; living in several places, including Kazakhstan; her daughter's birth in 1946; having no knowledge of events in Europe during this time; and continuing observance of Jewish holidays. Mrs. J. tells of being allowed to return to Poland in April 1946; learning that most of their families had perished and of her brother's murder by Poles when he returned to their estate after the war; fleeing to the western zone with the help of Beriḥah; staying in displaced persons camps; and emigration to the United States in 1951. 562 |e2 copies: |b3/4 in. dub; |band 1/2 in. VHS with time coding. 524 Esther J. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1400). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 600 10 J., Esther, |d1918- 610 20 Beriḥah (Organization) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50073740 650 0 Holocaust survivors. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061527 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 651 0 Wieluń (Łódź, Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85123982 651 0 Poland. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79131071 651 0 Siberia (Russia) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85122201 651 0 Kovelʹ (Ukraine) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92116510 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 690 4 Postwar experiences. 690 4 Antisemitism |yPrewar. 690 4 Soviet occupation. 690 4 Antisemitism |yPostwar. 651 0 Kazakhstan. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92000005 700 1 Morris, Susan, |einterviewer. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91061107 700 1 Tannenbaum, Elaine, |einterviewer. 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b1138158 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.1400) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/4t6f18sf05 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/