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Minna B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1196) interviewed by Brenda Steifel and Lilian Sicular,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1196

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Minna B., who was born in Zawalów, Poland in 1914. She recounts marriage in 1933; her son's birth; German invasion; deportation of her husband; ghettoization with her son and mother in Podhajce; hiding with her son during "aktions"; the Judenrat and Jewish police rounding-up people for forced labor; being forced to cover a mass grave of murdered Jews; fleeing to the woods during an "aktion" (she never saw her son and mother again); encountering her neighbor, Oscar F.; hiding in bunkers with Oscar F. and other Jews; receiving food and encouragment from Jehovah's Witnesses; reunion with her husband after liberation; traveling with him to Poland; living in the Bad Reichenhall displaced persons camp; and their emigration to Canada, then the United States. Mrs. B. discusses the importance of her religious faith.
Author/Creator: B., Minna, 1914-
Published: New York, N.Y. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1989
Interview Date: May 6, 1989.
Locale: Ukraine
Pidhaĭt︠s︡i.
Poland
Zawalów (Poland)
Cite As: Minna B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1196). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Steifel, Brenda, interviewer.
Sicular, Lilian, interviewer.
Notes: Associated material: Oscar F. Holocaust testimony [friend] (HVT-1197), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Physical Details

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

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Hiding.
Mass killings.
Bunkers.
Forests.
Aid by non-Jews.
Postwar experiences.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jewish ghettos. Jew--Ukraine--Pidhaĭt︠s︡i. Faith. Jehovah's Witnesses. Children--Death. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Poland. Zawalów (Poland) Oral histories (document genres) Jewish councils. Refugee camps. B., Minna,--1914- Bad Reichenhall (Displaced persons 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/1100288
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:27:00
This page:: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt1100288

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