LEADER 05773cpd a2200709 a 4500001 4284398 005 20180529115342.0 008 980731s1986 ctu heb d 035 HVT-1821 035 4284398 035 |9FLV8480YL 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)1005113115 090 |bHVT-1821 100 1 R., Chawka, |d1925?- 245 10 Chawka R. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1821) |h[videorecording] / |cinterviewed by Nili Keren and Tamar Shushan, |fJune 30, 1986 and September 12, 1986. 260 Ramat Aviv, Israel : |bBeth Hatefutsoth, Nahum Goldman Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, |c1986. 300 2 videorecordings (1 hr., 50 min., and 2 hr., 3 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Chawka R., who was born in approximately 1925. She recalls living in Warsaw in a secular, Zionist home; bombings during the German invasion; ghettoization; organizing a Deror school; joining the underground; circulating clandestine papers; an aunt leaving her baby outside of the ghetto; nuns sheltering the baby, who survived; living in a Zionist commune; her father's displeasure that she did not stay with the family; leaving the ghetto as an underground courier using false papers; bringing food back for her family; smuggling papers and weapons; observing a mass killing of Jews while outside the ghetto; hearing non-Jews on trains discussing Jews being burned alive; declining to be hidden outside the ghetto due to her loyalty to her group; being sent to observe what was occurring at Treblinka; traveling with Yitzhak Zuckerman to Kraków for a meeting of the underground; being warned of a round-up by Marek Edelman; being caught and beaten by Germans; identifying herself as a Polish communist; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau as a non-Jew; members of the Polish underground helping each other; improved conditions in Harmęże; a death march to Ravensbrück; liberation; transfer to Malmö, Sweden, via Denmark, then to Lund; returning to Poland with Yitzhak Zuckerman; learning her brothers and father had been killed; the painful realization that despite her survival, almost every one else had been killed; her mother's emigration to Israel; and joining her and other relatives 1947. Ms. R. attributes her thirty-month survival in Auschwitz/Birkenau to her sense of purpose and friendships with other prisoners. 546 This testimony is in Hebrew. 524 Chawka R. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1821). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 562 |e4 copies: |b3/4 in. dub; |bBetacam SP restoration master; |bBetacam SP restoration submaster; |band 1/2 in. VHS with time coding. 600 10 R., Chawka, |d1925?- 600 10 Edelman, Marek, |d1919-2009. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84099601 600 10 Zuckerman, Yitzhak, |d1915-1981. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84190302 610 20 Deror (Organization : Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82247578 610 20 Auschwitz (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96112360 610 20 Ravensbrück (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96068008 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 World War, 1939-1945 |xUnderground movements |zPoland. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010119158 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xJewish resistance. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148517 650 0 Jewish ghettos. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95007077 650 0 Jews |zPoland |zWarsaw. 650 0 Concentration camps |xPsychological aspects. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85029590 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xAtrocities. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148285 651 0 Warsaw (Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79018894 651 0 Kraków (Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79125145 651 0 Malmö (Sweden) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79110167 651 0 Lund (Sweden) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79018706 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 690 4 Child survivors. 690 4 False papers. 690 4 Aid by non-Jews. 690 4 Mutual aid. 690 4 Mass killings. 690 4 Postwar experiences. 690 4 Postwar effects. 691 4 Warsaw ghetto. 691 4 Harmęże (Poland : Concentration camp) 700 1 Keren, Nili, |einterviewer. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81145153 700 1 Shushan, Tamar, |einterviewer. 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b4663398 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.1821) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/4746q1sh95 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/