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Rose S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-653)

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-653

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Rose S., who was born in Romania, the youngest of six children. She recalls that her father was a successful merchant; Hungarian occupation; all of her brothers and brothers-in-law being drafted into slave labor battalions; her father's death in 1943; having to support her siblings and their twelve children; ghettoization when she was twenty-one; smuggling food in from her village; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau after six weeks; horrendous conditions on the transport; separation from her family upon arrival; being compelled to give blood for wounded German soldiers despite her weakness; learning her family had been killed and cremated; forced labor in the kitchen; a beating after providing extra food for her cousins; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; liberation by British troops; recuperation in Sweden; the kindness of the Swedes; marriage; her son's birth; and emigration to the United States. She discusses learning one brother and brother-in-law had survived; wanting her children to know about her experiences; good and bad prisoner officials; and the shame and sadistic punishments inflicted in the camps.
Author/Creator: S., Rose.
Published: Wilmette, Ill. : Holocaust Education Foundation, 1985
Interview Date: October 10, 1985.
Locale: Romania
Sweden
Cite As: Rose S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-653). 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., 2 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Postwar experiences.
Survivor-child relations.
Mutual aid.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jewish ghettos. Romania. Sweden. Oral histories (document genres) S., Rose. Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp) Bergen-Belsen (Concentration 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/4282269
Record last modified:: 2018-05-29 11:46:00
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