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a| CtY
b| eng
c| CtY
e| appm
a| Lena A. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1934)
h| [videorecording] /
c| interviewed by Jaschael Pery,
f| November 25, 1991.
a| New York, N.Y. :
b| A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage Video History Project,
c| 1991.
a| 1 videorecording (1 hr., 13 min.) :
b| col.
a| Videotape testimony of Lena A., who was born in Zboriv, Poland (presently Ukraine) in approximately 1929. She recalls attending Hebrew and Polish schools; holidays and sabbaths with a large, extended family; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in 1941; seeing puddles of blood after a mass killing of men, for which her father, uncle, and brother were not taken; ghettoization; learning through a friend in the Judenrat of the final liquidation; being hidden in her mother's bed when her family was moved to the Zboriv labor camp; learning her younger sister and grandmother were not hidden as her parents had arranged; her mother arranging for a Polish man who was hiding her uncle and family to smuggle her out to join them, first in a barn, then a potato cellar; separation from two of the nine when changing hiding places (they were killed); liberation by Soviet troops after about a year; attending school in Kraków for a year; assistance from UNRRA; living in displaced persons camps (one near Munich); emigration by herself to the United States; living with relatives; attending school; and several careers. Ms. A. notes not discussing her horrors for years; painful memories; helping the Polish family who saved them; and their recognition by Yad Vashem. She shows photographs
a| This testimony cannot be viewed until 2020 or the death of the donor, whichever comes first.
a| Lena A. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1934). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
d| Related material: Lucille M. Holocaust testimony [cousin] (HVT-1933),
a| Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
e| 3 copies:
b| 3/4 in. dub;
b| Betacam restoration master;
b| and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
a| United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79097409
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| Jewish children in the Holocaust.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96005877
a| Jewish ghettos.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95007077
a| Jews
z| Ukraine
z| Zboriv.
a| World War, 1939-1945
x| Atrocities.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148285
a| Escapes.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85044783
a| Families.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85047009
a| Refugee camps.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87007802
a| Zboriv (Ukraine)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82028055
a| Poland.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79131071
a| Kraków (Poland)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79125145
a| Munich (Germany)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79059670
a| Oral histories (document genres)
2| aat
0| http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595
a| Zboriv (Ukraine : 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.1934)
u| https://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/9k45q4rs6j
y| For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
u| https://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/