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a| CtY
b| eng
c| CtY
e| appm
a| Clara K. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1922)
h| [videorecording] /
c| interviewed by Jaschael Pery,
f| December 24, 1991.
a| New York, N.Y. :
b| A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage,
c| 1991.
a| 1 videorecording (1 hr., 40 min.) :
b| col.
a| Videotape testimony of Clara K., who was born in Cehu Silvaniei, Romania in 1927. She describes cordial relations with non-Jews; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish laws; confiscation of her father's business; attending a Jewish school in Cluj-Napoca; ghettoization in Szilágysomlyó (Simleul-Silvaniei) in May 1944; public hanging of her boyfriend; transport to Auschwitz in June; separation from her father and brother (she never saw them again); transfer with her mother five days later to Kaiserwald; slave labor in a munitions factory; transfer by ship to Stutthof; transfer three days later to Dorbeck, Germany (Próchnik, Poland); slave labor digging antitank ditches; transfer to Guttau; a fellow prisoner giving birth; a German hiding the birth and the baby (it died); a death march in January 1945; abandonment by the guards; liberation; her mother protecting her from rape by a Soviet soldier; returning home; learning they were the only family survivors (thirty-six relatives were killed); marriage; and emigration to France in 1958, then the United States in 1962. Ms. K. discusses the importance to her survival of being with her mother and of luck; her mother's faith in God throughout; and sharing her experiences with her children and students (she is a retired teacher). She shows photographs.
e| 2 copies:
b| 3/4 in. dub;
b| and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
a| Clara K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1922). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
a| Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96112360
a| Kaiserwald (Concentration camp)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97050711
a| Stutthof (Concentration camp)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no97029619
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| Jewish ghettos.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95007077
a| Jews
z| Romania
z| Simleul Silvaniei.
a| World War, 1939-1945
x| Atrocities.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148285
a| Mothers and daughters.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85087538
a| Forced labor.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453
a| Death marches.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95006384
a| Faith.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85046928
a| Romania.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79049551
a| Cehu Silvaniei (Romania)
a| Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83032427
a| Șimleu Silvaniei (Romania)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr91001708
a| Oral histories (document genres)
2| aat
0| http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595
a| Childbirth in concentration camps.
a| Survivor-child relations.
a| Guttau (Poland : Concentration camp)
a| Pery, Jaschael,
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.1922)
u| https://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/c824b2x92f
y| For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
u| https://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/