- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Bella R., who was born in Sosnowiec, Poland in 1926. In this detailed testimony, Mrs. R. recalls antisemitic incidents; German invasion; briefly fleeing to Wolbrom; returning to Sosnowiec; anti-Jewish violence; ghettoization; conflicts between the Judenrat and the underground; avoiding deportation due to the family business; transfer to the Srodula ghetto; hiding in a bunker in August 1943; discovery (one brother was killed and her parents taken); remaining in the bunker with her sister and brother for seven days; leaving after her siblings had gone; capture by a Pole; transfer to the Kamionka ghetto; escaping to Będzin; help from a Polish family friend and a Polish woman; returning to Kamionka; reunion with her brother and sister; their transfer to Annaberg; transfer with her sister to another camp; slave labor in a textile factory; transfer to Grünberg; the death march in January 1945 to Christianstadt; her sister's escape, then her own with friends; liberation by Soviet troops; finding her sister; returning to Sosnowiec; reunion with her father; joining her mother and another sister in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp; marriage; and emigration to Israel in 1950, and then to the United States in 1963. She shows photographs and notes relatives who did not survive.
- Author/Creator
- R., Bella, 1926-
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1993
- Interview Date
- May 17, 1993.
- Locale
- Poland
Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie)
Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie, Poland)
Wolbrom (Poland)
Będzin (Poland)
Israel
- Cite As
- Bella R. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2585). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Schiff, Gabriele, interviewer.
Silverman, Helen W., interviewer.
