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Hilda B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1461) interviewed by Susan W. Needle and Jody Maier,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1461

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Hilda B., who was born in Steinsfurt, Germany in 1926. She recalls her father's death in 1928 from World War I injuries; moving to a village; having their windows broken on Kristallnacht; expulsion from public school; attending a Jewish school in Heilbronn; her family's deportation while she was away from home in 1940; living with a teacher in Heilbronn; forced labor; briefly studying nursing in Hamburg; and deportation to Theresienstadt in August 1942. Mrs. B. describes the organization of life in Theresienstadt; deportation to Auschwitz in October 1944; transfer to Birkenau; efforts to stay with her friends; transport two weeks later to Kurzbach; digging graves; sending a note to friends in Theresienstadt through a guard; the death march to Gross Rosen; transfer to Mauthausen, then Bergen-Belsen; horrendous conditions for two months; liberation by British troops in April 1945; recuperating in Stockholm, Sweden; and emigration to the United States. She discusses her reunion with her sister after a twenty year separation and her continuing reluctance to speak of her experiences.
    Author/Creator
    B., Hilda, 1926-
    Published
    Baltimore, Md. : Baltimore Jewish Council, 1990
    Interview Date
    January 31, 1990.
    Locale
    Stockholm (Sweden)
    Germany
    Steinsfurt (Germany)
    Heilbronn (Germany)
    Hamburg (Germany)
    Cite As
    Hilda B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1461). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Needle, Susan W., interviewer.
    Maier, Jody, interviewer.

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Copies
    2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
    Physical Description
    1 videorecording (51 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Antisemitism Prewar.
    Crystal Night, 1938.
    Aid by non-Jews.
    Child survivors.
    Mutual aid.
    Postwar experiences.
    Survivor-child relations.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1089288
    Record last modified:
    2018-05-30 11:44:00
    This page:
    http:​/​/collections.ushmm.org​/search​/catalog​/hvt1089288

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