LEADER 05104cpd a2200637 a 4500001 11265761 005 20180530115137.0 008 130220s2011 ctu eng d 035 HVT-4448 035 11265761 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)1005100819 090 |bHVT-4448 100 1 K., Leona, |d1926- 245 10 Leona K. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4448) |h[videorecording] / |cinterviewed by Joanne Weiner Rudof and Barbara Hadley Katz, |fDecember 9, 2011. 260 New Haven, Conn. : |bFortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |c2011. 300 1 videorecording (2 hr., 19 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Leona K., who was born in Nowe Miasto nad Pilicą, Poland in 1926, one of five children. She recalls her large and close extended family; antisemitic policies at school; German invasion; she and her family visiting her married sister in Warsaw; ghettoization; their return to Nowe Miasto; ghettoization; working outside the ghetto as a maid for a German family; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in November 1942; remaining with two sisters and cousins when separated from her family; slave labor digging ditches in bitter cold; carrying the dead back to camp; learning of the gas chambers and crematoria; public hangings; transfer with her sisters to the Canada Kommando; eating food they found when sorting the clothing of those gassed; fasting on Yom Kippur; her sisters forcing her to work when she was ill so she would not be killed; seeing her brother and cousin from a distance; separation from her sisters in a selection; a German helping them reunite; transport in open train cars in January 1945; escaping with her sisters from a forced march; encountering United States troops who fed and cared for them in Schwerin; placement in Lübeck displaced persons camp; meeting her future husband; marriage; her older sister's emigration to Palestine; emigration to the United States with her sister, husband, and his relatives; and the births of her children. Ms. K. notes the great joy she receives from her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She shows photographs and a diamond that her husband's father had given to him before the war. 524 Leona K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4448). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 562 |e3 copies: |bDVCam master; Betacam SP submaster; |band 1/2 in. VHS with time coding. 600 10 K., Leona, |d1926- 610 20 Auschwitz (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96112360 610 20 Birkenau (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96068007 650 0 Holocaust survivors. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061527 650 0 Video tapes. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143214 650 0 Women. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85147274 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |vPersonal narratives. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061518 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |vPersonal narratives, Jewish. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148465 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xChildren. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148359 650 0 Jewish children in the Holocaust. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96005877 650 0 Jewish ghettos. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95007077 650 0 Jews |zPoland |zWarsaw. 650 0 Jews |zPoland |zNowe Miasto nad Pilicą. 650 0 Sisters. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85123008 650 0 Forced labor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xAtrocities. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148285 650 0 Concentration camp inmates |xReligious life. 650 0 Refugee camps. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87007802 651 0 Poland. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79131071 651 0 Nowe Miasto nad Pilicą (Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2011037310 651 0 Warsaw (Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79018894 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 691 0 Schwerin (Germany) 690 4 Child survivors. 690 4 Mutual aid. 690 4 Postwar experiences. 691 4 Warsaw ghetto. 691 4 Nowe Miasto nad Pilicą. 691 4 Lübeck (Germany : Refugee camp) 693 24 Canada Kommando. 700 1 Rudof, Joanne Weiner, |einterviewer. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n99266034 700 1 Katz, Barbara Hadley, |einterviewer. 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b11422606 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.4448) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/gb1xd0r13k 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/