- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Rita A., who was born in Bacāu, Romania in 1931. She recalls her family's strong sense of Romanian identification; anti-Jewish laws in 1939 precluding her attendance at public school; attending a Jewish school; her family's privileged position due to her father's work for a Romanian officer; hiding during pogroms by local Romanian fascists; her father avoiding deportation due to the influence of the officer; liberation by Soviet troops; her brother escaping to Austria; traveling to Vienna with her parents; living in Rothschild Hospital, then Wegscheid and Salzburg displaced persons camps; training to go to Palestine with a Zionist organization; marriage to a Lithuanian survivor in Parsch displaced persons camp in 1948; and emigration to Israel, then to Canada in 1951. Mrs. A. discusses learning about concentration and death camps while in displaced persons camps and learning of her husband's experiences.
- Author/Creator
- A., Rita, 1931-
- Published
- Vancouver, B.C. : Vancouver Holocaust Centre Society, 1984
- Interview Date
- August 29, 1984.
- Locale
- Romania
Bacău (Romania)
Israel
- Cite As
- Rita A. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3069). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Krell, Robert, interviewer.
