- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Rosel B., who was born in 1916 in Warsaw, Poland. Mrs. B. describes her family's move to Berlin; visits to her grandparents in Poland; attending a Jewish school; their highly cultured lifestyle; warnings about Hitler from 1928 onward; attending secretarial school; forced sale of the family business; her engagement in 1936; marriage in Berlin; emigration to Amsterdam; and the birth of her daughter. She recounts German invasion; betrayal by their housekeeper; receiving a notice for deportation; fleeing with her husband and daughter, via Brussels and Bordeaux, to Nice; bribing the French police to free her sister's husband; living safely in Italian-occupied southern France for a year; a close escape from the Gestapo in Grenoble; and living for a year in Switzerland. Mrs. B. discusses moving to Brussels after the war; seeking surviving family and learning most had perished; reclaiming property in Amsterdam and Berlin; her husband's nightmares; and her discomfort with Germans.
- Author/Creator
- B., Rosel, 1916-
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1992
- Interview Date
- May 1, 1992.
- Locale
- Berlin (Germany)
Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Grenoble (France)
Nice (France)
Antwerp (Belgium)
Warsaw (Poland)
Poland
- Cite As
- Rosel B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-871). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Kline, Dana L., interviewer.
Katz, Helen, interviewer.
