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Marie B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2880) interviewed by Joni-Sue Blinderman,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2880

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Marie B., who was born in Kuchava, Czechoslovakia in 1926, one of seven children. She recounts her father's death when she was three; attending school in Kuzʹmino and Mukachevo; Hungarian occupation in 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions; forced relocation with her family to the Munkács ghetto during Passover 1944; deportation to Auschwitz in May; separation from her mother upon arrival; transfer with her sisters and aunt to Birkenau; sorting deportees' possessions in Canada Kommando, which provided them with extra food and a close view of the gas chambers and crematoria; sharing food with her sisters and aunt; the Sonderkommando revolt; a death march to Gleiwitz, followed by their transport to Ravensbrück; slave labor at an airplane factory in Neustadt-Glewe; assistance from a German foreman and French POWs; and liberation by United States troops. Mrs. B. describes their journey home via Prague; marriage in 1948; escaping to Israel in 1966; and emigration from Germany to the United States in 1969. She discusses the importance to her survival of being with her relatives; relations among prisoners in the camps; her reluctance to share her experiences with her children; and loss of belief in God after the war.
    Author/Creator
    B., Marie, 1926-
    Published
    New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1994
    Interview Date
    April 4, 1994.
    Locale
    Ukraine
    Mukacheve
    Czechoslovakia
    Kuchava (Ukraine)
    Mukacheve (Ukraine)
    Kuzʹmyno (Zakarpatsʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine)
    Prague (Czech Republic)
    Israel
    Cite As
    Marie B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2880). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Blinderman, Joni-Sue, interviewer.
    Notes
    Related material: Irene G. Holocaust testimony [sister](HVT-2682), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Copies
    3 copies: 3/4 in. dub; Betacam SP restoration master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
    Physical Description
    1 videorecording (2 hr., 28 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Child survivors.
    Hungarian occupation.
    Concentration camps Revolts.
    Mutual aid.
    Aid by non-Jews.
    Postwar experiences.
    Survivor-child relations.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4289079
    Record last modified:
    2018-05-30 11:44:00
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