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Bronia R. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2462) interviewed by Edwin A. Hiscock and Mary Ann McCue,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2462

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Bronia R., who was born in Turek, Poland in 1926. She recounts German invasion; remaining home with her mother when her family unsuccessfully tried to escape to Russia; being forced to watch a public hanging; ghettoization; transfer to Inowracław in 1940 in her sister's place; slave labor digging canals; deportation to Auschwitz in 1943; jumping off a truck on the way to the gas chambers and returning to a barrack; working for Telefunken in Langenbielau; transfer on open train cars via Bergen-Belsen and Mauthausen to Salzwedel; and liberation by United States troops in April 1945. Mrs. R. describes traveling with the United States Army to Braunschweig; studying nursing and English in Heidelberg; working as a nurse in the Lampertheim displaced persons camp; marriage in 1947; and emigration to the United States. She notes that she believed throughout her experience that God would save her.
Author/Creator: R., Bronia, 1926-
Published: Kansas City, Mo. : Midwest Center for Holocaust Education, Inc., 1994
Interview Date: May 24, 1994.
Locale: Poland
Turek
Turek (Poland)
Braunschweig (Germany)
Heidelberg (Germany)
Cite As: Bronia R. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2462). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Hiscock, Edwin A., interviewer.
McCue, Mary Ann, interviewer.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (1 hr., 49 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Child survivors.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Jewish ghettos. Forced labor. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Faith. Jews--Poland--Turek. Poland. Turek (Poland) Braunschweig (Germany) Heidelberg (Germany) Oral histories (document genres) Death marches. Refugee camps. R., Bronia,--1926- Langenbielau (Concentration camp) Lampertheim (Displaced persons camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Salzwedel (Concentration camp)

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
Special Collection: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

Link to Yale University Library Catalog:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1096670
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:28:00
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