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Helen C. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2296) interviewed by Uri Rueveni and Mira Rueveni,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2296

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Helen C., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1923. She recalls her close-knit family; German occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; hiding with her family during round-ups; her father's death from starvation; forced labor at a munitions factory; marriage at age seventeen; assistance from David Gertler, a Jewish ghetto official; being caught in a round-up; escaping from the truck with her husband; refusing privileges to avoid separation from her mother and siblings; their deportation to Auschwitz in September 1944; separation from her mother, brother, and husband upon arrival; forced labor clearing air raid rubble; transfer to Bremen with her sister; her sister and friends assisting her when she was injured; liberation by British troops on April 15, 1945; helping her sister recover from typhus; and reunion with her husband. Mrs. C. describes emigration to the United States with her husband in 1945, and assistance from HIAS.
Author/Creator: C., Helen, 1923-
Published: Houston, Tex. : Holocaust Education Center and Memorial Museum of Houston, 1991
Interview Date: February 24, 1991.
Locale: Poland
Łódź
Łódź (Poland)
Cite As: Helen C. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2296). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Rueveni, Mira, interviewer.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (2 hr., 37 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Child survivors.
Marriage in Jewish ghettos.
Mutual aid.
Postwar experiences.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Łódź. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Forced labor. Sisters. Poland. Łódź (Poland) Oral histories (document genres) C., Helen,--1923- Gertler, David. HIAS (Agency) Auschwitz (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/4287242
Record last modified:: 2018-05-30 11:28:00
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