Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Ruth F., who was born in Brzeziny, Poland. She recalls her affluent family; German invasion and bombardment; her older brother's draft into the Polish army; anti-Jewish measures; public hanging of Jewish men at the end of 1939; ghettoization; forced labor at a munitions factory; the ghetto's liquidation; transfer with her family to Łódź; her father's deportation (she never saw him again); separation from her mother upon arrival at Auschwitz/Birkenau in August 1944 (she never saw her again); prisoner observance of Rosh ha-Shanah; becoming ill; transfer to the hospital, then the Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Lager); transfer to Lenzing; slave labor digging ditches; and liberation by United States troops. Mrs. F. describes the assistance and kindness of Red Cross personnel; recuperating in a resort; seeking her brothers in Ebensee refugee camp; marriage; their joining the Haganah and moving to Italy; returning to Germany due to their discomfort with communal living; reunion with her brother in Altötting; and their emigration to the United States.
- Published
- Los Angeles, Calif. : UCLA Holocaust Documentation Archives, 1984
- Interview Date
- October 22, 1984.
- Locale
- Poland
Brzeziny
Łódź
Brzeziny (Łódź, Poland)
Italy
Altötting (Germany) - Cite As
- Ruth F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-408). 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., 27 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Hospitals in concentration camps.
Postwar experiences. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Brzeziny. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Jews--Poland--Łódź. Concentration camp inmates--Religious life. Forced labor. Poland. Brzeziny (Łódź, Poland) Italy. Altötting (Germany) Oral histories (document genres) F., Ruth. International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. Haganah (Organization) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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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/1098956
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:31:00
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