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Selene B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-403) interviewed by Ruby Bubis and Erika Jacoby,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-403

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Selene B., who was born in Białystok, Poland. She recalls German occupation; mass killings; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization; hiding with her family during round-ups; her brother's work as a photographer's assistant (he brought home pictures of the ghetto); her brother arranging for her and her mother to work at a furniture factory; hiding with her mother after the ghetto's liquidation; their arrest and deportation to Stutthof, then Birkenau; working with her mother in a bomb factory; attempting to sabotage the bomb fuses; a public hanging; transfer to Auschwitz; finding her aunt; the death march to Ravensbrück; transfer with her mother and aunt to Neustadt; and liberation by Soviet troops. Mrs. B. describes working for the Soviet army; traveling with her mother to Łódź; returning to Białystok; hearing from her father in the United States; learning her brother had survived; meeting her future husband on a train to Germany; joining her father in the United States; and attending high school. She recalls her nightmares after a trip with her husband to Białystok, Łódź, Birkenau and Auschwitz, and returning to Poland with her children so they could see it through her eyes.
    Author/Creator
    B., Selene.
    Published
    Los Angeles, Calif. : UCLA Holocaust Documentation Archives, 1983
    Interview Date
    March 6, 1983.
    Locale
    Poland
    Białystok
    Białystok (Poland)
    Łódź (Poland)
    Cite As
    Selene B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-403). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Bubis, Ruby, interviewer.
    Jacoby, Erika,

    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., 11 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Child survivors.
    Mass killings.
    Hiding.
    Mutual aid.
    Postwar experiences.
    Survivor-child relations.
    Białystok ghetto.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1098962
    Record last modified:
    2018-06-04 13:24:00
    This page:
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