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Bracha R. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2594) interviewed by Toby Blum-Dobkin,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2594

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Bracha R., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1927. She recounts her parents had emigrated from Poland; German invasion; fleeing to Toulouse; attending school; her father's return to Brussels; rejoining him with her mother a few months later; her father bringing her to the home of non-Jews to hide, then to another home a few days later; remaining for about eighteen months; being placed with another family under a false name for the rest of the war; reunion with her parents; marriage; and the births of a son and daughter.
Author/Creator: R., Bracha, 1927-
Published: New York, N.Y. : Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1991
Interview Date: May 30, 1991.
Locale: Belgium
Brussels (Belgium)
Toulouse (France)
Cite As: Bracha R. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2594). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Blum-Dobkin, Toby, interviewer.
Notes: This testimony is in Yiddish.

Physical Details

Language: Yiddish
Copies: 3 copies: 3/4 in. dub; Betacam SP restoration master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (1 hr., 17 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Child survivors.
Hiding.
Aid by non-Jews.
Postwar experiences.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Jewish children in the Holocaust. Belgium. Brussels (Belgium) Toulouse (France) Oral histories (document genres) R., Bracha,--1927-

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/4288280
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:26:00
This page:: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4288280

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