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.
- 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.
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
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
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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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- http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt1096670
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