Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Rachel F., who was born in Skarżysko-Kamienna, Poland in 1924. She describes attending public and religious schools; orthodox observances in her close, extended family; German-Jewish refugees arriving in the early 1930s; German invasion in September 1939; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization in 1941; volunteering to go to Skarżysko-Kamienna labor camp in June 1942; slave labor at the munitions factory; public executions; learning the ghetto was liquidated in October; a brief visit with her brother in 1943 (she never saw him again); transfer to Częstochowa in summer 1944; deportation to Bergen-Belsen in January 1945; help from a fellow prisoner during the death march to Burgau, then Türkheim; transfer to Dachau; and liberation by United States troops. Mrs. F. recounts Red Cross assistance; living in Landsberg displaced persons camp; learning her other brother survived; marriage in 1948; their emigration to Israel; her son's birth; their emigration to Canada in 1952; and her second son's birth. She discusses the centrality of her children to her life and her reluctance to share her experiences with them until recently. She shows photographs.
- Published
- Vancouver, B.C. : Vancouver Holocaust Centre Society
- Interview Date
- August 22, 1984.
- Locale
- Poland
Skarżysko-Kamienna
Skarżysko-Kamienna (Poland)
Israel - Cite As
- Rachel F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3068). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 25 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Child survivors.
Mutual aid.
Postwar experiences.
Antisemitism Prewar.
Survivor-child relations. - 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 ghettos. Jews--Poland--Skarżysko-Kamienna. Forced labor. Brothers and sisters. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Death marches. Poland. Skarżysko-Kamienna (Poland) Israel. Oral histories (document genres) Refugee camps. F., Rachel,--1924- Częstochowa (Concentration camp) Türkheim (Concentration camp) Burgau (Concentration camp) Landsberg am Lech (Displaced persons camp) International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. Skarżysko-Kamienna (Concentration camp) Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) Dachau (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/4290297
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:29:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4290297
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