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990601s1984 ctu heb d
a| CtY
b| eng
c| CtY
e| appm
a| Aviva U. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1077)
h| [videorecording] /
c| interviewed by Nathan Beyrak and Raphael Rosner,
f| August 31, 1984.
a| Ramat Aviv, Israel :
b| Beth Hatefutsoth, Nahum Goldman Museum of the Jewish Diaspora,
c| 1984.
a| 1 videorecording (3 hr.) :
b| col.
a| Videotape testimony of Aviva U., who was born in Warsaw, Poland after her father's death. She recalls attending a Polish school, the only Jew in a quota; staying with her grandparents in Otwock; German invasion; returning to Warsaw; ghettoization; attending school; escaping a mass killing when her mother's body knocked her down and she feigned death; obtaining false papers from her mother's friend; escaping from the ghetto; posing as a Russian refugee; exposure by a Jew; denying her Judaism under torture; a priest attesting she was Catholic; transport to Germany for forced labor; working for a village mayor from 1943 to 1945; arrival of Soviet troops; joining the Soviet army to take revenge; working as a translator in Berlin; identifying collaborators who were immediately hung; deserting; returning to Warsaw and Otwock; returning to Germany due to Polish antisemitism; suffering from mental illness; studying in Munich; marriage; her daughter's birth; and their emigration to Israel in 1948. Mrs. U. discusses difficulties having her experiences heard in Israel; problematic relations with her daughter; the meaning of revenge in her life; and contemporary Israeli politics. She notes only now in Israel is the individual Holocaust experience valued apart from the collective Jewish experience.
a| This testimony is in Hebrew.
e| 2 copies:
b| 3/4 in. dub;
b| and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
a| Aviva U. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1077). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
a| Holocaust survivors.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061527
a| Video tapes.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143214
a| Women.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85147274
a| Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
v| Personal narratives.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061518
a| World War, 1939-1945
v| Personal narratives, Jewish.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148465
a| World War, 1939-1945
x| Children.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148359
a| Jews
z| Poland
z| Warsaw.
a| Jewish ghettos.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95007077
a| World War, 1939-1945
x| Atrocities.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148285
a| Forced labor.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453
a| Revenge.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85113420
a| Escapes.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85044783
a| World War, 1939-1945
x| Participation, Soviet.
a| Germany.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80125931
a| Poland.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79131071
a| Warsaw (Poland)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79018894
a| Otwock (Poland)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92011303
a| Berlin (Germany)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79034972
a| Munich (Germany)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79059670
a| Israel.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79003285
a| Oral histories (document genres)
2| aat
0| http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595
a| Antisemitism
y| Prewar.
a| Survivor-child relations.
a| Antisemitism
y| Postwar.
a| Beyrak, Nathan,
e| interviewer.
a| Rozner, Raphael,
e| interviewer.
a| Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
b| Yale University Library
e| Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240.
y| Digital testimony (mssa.hvt.1077)
u| https://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/t14th8bv7b
y| For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
u| https://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/