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a| CtY
b| eng
c| CtY
e| appm
a| Pearl B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2876)
h| [videorecording] /
c| interviewed by Joni-Sue Blinderman,
f| March 16, 1994.
a| New York, N.Y. :
b| A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage,
c| 1994.
a| 1 videorecording (1 hr., 56 min.) :
b| col.
a| Videotape testimony of Pearl B., who was born in Rozwadów, Poland in 1921. She recalls attending school in Jastkowice; her mother's death when she was five; her father's remarriage; cordial relations with non-Jews; her oldest brother's emigration to the United States in 1939; German invasion; many fleeing to the Soviet zone; obtaining food illegally from local Poles; hiding family valuables with Polish neighbors; her father's and brother's deportation to a labor camp; their release after six months; being beaten by two Ukrainians; receiving help from a former teacher; a round-up of Jews in July 1942; being hidden by a Pole; obtaining false papers from a priest; volunteering for forced labor in Germany using the false papers; being taken to Sandomierz, then Częstochowa; transport to Grevenbroich; factory work; obtaining extra food working as a housekeeper; a severe illness which left her partially blind; working in Düsseldorf; regaining vision after a fall; being condemned to death for defying an SS order; bribing guards to release her; moving to Jülich; joining a labor brigade; being identified as an escapee; being saved when the executioner was killed in an Allied bombing; and liberation by United States troops.
e| 2 copies:
b| 3/4 in. dub;
b| and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
a| Pearl B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2876). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
a| Holocaust survivors.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061527
a| Video tapes.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143214
a| Women.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85147274
a| Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
v| Personal narratives.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061518
a| World War, 1939-1945
v| Personal narratives, Jewish.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148465
a| Forced labor.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453
a| Poland.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79131071
a| Rozwadów (Stalowa Wola, Poland)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr91016034
a| Jastkowice (Poland)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2014086115
a| Sandomierz (Poland)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81080123
a| Częstochowa (Poland)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50065728
a| Grevenbroich (Germany)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82156712
a| Düsseldorf (Germany)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80057014
a| Jülich (Germany)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81072909
a| Oral histories (document genres)
2| aat
0| http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595
a| Blinderman, Joni-Sue,
e| interviewer.
a| Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
b| Yale University Library
e| Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240.
y| Digital testimony (mssa.hvt.2876)
u| https://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/wp9t14tz8h
y| For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
u| https://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/