Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Regina R., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1914. She recalls involvement with Zionist movements; working in the Jewish hospital; German occupation; humiliating forced labor; marriage in 1939; her husband's departure for Italy in 1940; her father's arrest (she never saw him again); deportation to Theresienstadt in October 1942 with her mother, sister, and other relatives; assignment to a work detail registering Jewish prisoners; asking Rabbi Murmelstein (head of the Jewish Committee) to allow her to go with her mother in May 1944; their transfer to Birkenau; separation (she never saw her mother again); transfer to Auschwitz; transfer to Stutthof, then Praust; slave labor under vicious overseers; being beaten for accepting food and presents from a German civilian and a French POW; a death march; escaping with other prisoners; posing as German refugees; liberation by Soviet troops; recovering in a Soviet hospital; briefly living in a displaced persons camp; returning to Vienna; reunion with her husband in Rome in 1946; and emigrating to the United States in 1950. Mrs. R. discusses her brother's prewar death and the survival of her three sisters; prisoner relations in the camps; continuing nightmares; and reluctance to share her experiences with her children when they were young.
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1992
- Interview Date
- April 20, 1992.
- Locale
- Poland
Vienna (Austria)
Austria
Rome (Italy) - Cite As
- Regina R. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2072).Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 27 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Zionist activities.
Antisemitism Prewar.
Mutual aid.
Aid by non-Jews.
Postwar experiences.
Postwar effects.
Survivor-child relations. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Forced labor. Mothers and daughters. Sisters. Concentration camp inmates--Family relationships. Concentration camps--Sociological aspects. Death marches. Escapes. Nightmares. Prisoners of war--Poland. Vienna (Austria) Austria. Rome (Italy) Oral histories (document genres) Austria--History--Anschluss, 1938. Refugee camps. Murmelstein, Benjamin,--1905-1989. R., Regina,--1914- Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Stutthof (Concentration camp) Praust (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
-
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4286321
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:28:00
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