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Regina F. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1559) interviewed by Toby Blum-Dobkin and Ilana Abramovitch,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1559

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Regina F., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1926. She recalls the family move to Aleksandrów Kujawski; the successful family business; their affluent and happy life; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; returning to Warsaw; ghettoization in 1940; her father's and sister's deportation; her mother's and brother's deportation; going to Mila 18 in 1942 and discovering her grandmother and siblings, who had been hiding; hiding in a bunker; discovery and deportation to Majdanek with her sister; their transfer to Auschwitz; a guard allowing her sister to remain with her; a privileged position in Canada Kommando; smuggling food to others; a baby's birth; disposing of the baby to save the mother; transfer to Ravensbrück in 1945; escape, with aid from a guard, during transfer elsewhere; liberation by Soviet troops; returning to Warsaw and Łódź seeking relatives (she found none); living in displaced persons camps in Landsberg and Stuttgart; marriage; her son's birth; and emigration to the United States in 1950. She discusses her lack of desire to live after the war; her lost youth; a song about the Warsaw ghetto; and never discussing her experiences with her children and other survivors. She shows photographs.
    Author/Creator
    F., Regina, 1926-
    Published
    New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1990
    Interview Date
    August 15, 1990.
    Locale
    Poland
    Warsaw
    Aleksandrów Kujawski (Poland)
    Warsaw (Poland)
    Łódź (Poland)
    Cite As
    Regina F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1559). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Blum-Dobkin, Toby, interviewer.
    Abramovitch, Ilana, interviewer.
    Notes
    This testimony is in Yiddish with some English.

    Physical Details

    Language
    Yiddish
    Copies
    2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
    Physical Description
    1 videorecording (2 hr., 13 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Hiding.
    Postwar effects.
    Mutual aid.
    Antisemitism Prewar.
    Survivor child relations.
    Child survivors.
    Aid by non-Jews.
    Bunkers.
    Canada Kommando.
    Childbirth in concentration camps.
    Postwar experiences.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4283971
    Record last modified:
    2018-06-04 13:23:00
    This page:
    https:​/​/collections.ushmm.org​/search​/catalog​/hvt4283971

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