LEADER 04643cpd a2200625 a 4500001 4286626 005 20180604132648.0 008 980619s1992 ctu eng d 035 (CStRLIN)CTYV98-A179 035 4286626 035 HVT-2179 035 |9FLW0746YL 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)1007236382 090 |bHVT-2179 100 1 W., Bronisława, |d1919- 245 10 Bronisława W. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2179) |h[videorecording] / |cinterviewed by Rayzl Kalifowicz-Waletsky, |fMarch 8, 1992. 260 New York, N.Y. : |bA Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, |c1992. 300 1 videorecording (2 hr., 53 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Bronisława W., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1919. Ms. W. recalls her family's assimilated lifestyle; her father's death and mother's remarriage; beatings by her alcoholic stepfather; transferring to a Jewish school to avoid antisemitic harassment; helping support the family after her mother's divorce; ghettoization with her mother and sister in 1940 (her brother escaped to the Soviet zone and survived); selling their store to Poles who refused to pay them; working in the children's hospital which provided access to food, medicine and passes to leave the ghetto; extraordinary efforts of the hospital's staff, director (Dr. Szwajgier), and ethnic German supervisor to care for the children; working as a courier for underground movements; rescuing her sister from deportation in July 1942 (she was unable to rescue her mother); placing her sister in an apartment on the Aryan side; her sister's arrest (she never saw her again); moving to the Aryan side; living with Dr. Szwajgier; working for the Bund obtaining hiding places and false papers; constant danger; and meeting her future husband. She notes some Poles provided assistance for religious reasons and some for money. 500 This testimony ends abruptly and is not complete. 500 Related publication: I remember nothing more : the Warsaw Childrens Hospital and the Jewish Resistance / Adina Blady-Szwajgier / translated form the Polish by Tasja Darowska and Danusia Stok. -- London : Collins Harvill, c1990. 562 |e2 copies: |b3/4 in. dub; |band 1/2 in. VHS with time coding. 524 Bronisława W. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2179). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 600 10 Blady-Szwajgier, Adina, |d1917- |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90692636 600 10 W., Bronisława, |d1919- 610 20 Allgemeyner Idisher arbayṭerbund in Liṭa, Poylen un Rusland. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50073279 610 20 Szpital im. Bersonów i Baumanów. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90692834 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 Jews |zPoland |zWarsaw. 650 0 Jewish ghettos. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95007077 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xJewish resistance. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148517 650 0 Sisters. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85123008 650 0 Escapes. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85044783 651 0 Warsaw (Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79018894 651 0 Poland. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79131071 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 690 4 Antisemitism |yPrewar. 690 4 Hiding. 690 4 Resistance. 690 4 Aid by non-Jews. 690 4 False papers. 690 4 Hospitals in Jewish ghettos. 691 4 Warsaw ghetto. 693 24 Bund. 693 24 Warsaw Children's Hospital. 700 1 Kalifowicz-Waletsky, Rayzl, |einterviewer. 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies |bYale University Library |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b4665691 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.2179) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/kd1qf8jq46 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/