Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Raquel F., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1928. She recalls attending a Jewish school; antisemitic harassment by Polish children; her father's emigration to Argentina in 1938; German invasion; ghettoization; forced factory labor with her mother; joining a Zionist youth group; sharing food and caring for each other; deportation to Auschwitz in August 1944; separation from her mother and brother; remaining with a friend; their transfer to another camp; slave labor manufacturing airplane radios; Allied bombings; walking to Bergen-Belsen; liberation by British troops; hospitalization in Belsen and Hamburg; reunion with her brother; communication from their father; joining him in Argentina via Uruguay in 1947; marriage; and her father's remarriage. Mrs. F. discusses relations between national groups in the camps; the importance to her survival of luck, youth, and a strong will; and sharing memories of the war years with her brother. She is briefly joined by her daughter.
- Published
- Buenos Aires, Argentina : Fundacion "Memoria del Holocausto", 1994
- Interview Date
- June 19, 1994.
- Locale
- Poland
Łódź
Łódź (Poland)
Uruguay
Hamburg (Germany) - Cite As
- Raquel F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3159). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
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This testimony is in Spanish.
Physical Details
- Language
- Spanish
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 31 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Child survivors.
Zionist organizations.
Antisemitism Prewar.
Mutual aid.
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 ghettos. Jews--Poland--Łódź. Forced labor. Concentration camps--Sociological aspects. Poland. Łódź (Poland) Uruguay. Hamburg (Germany) Oral histories (document genres) F., Raquel,--1928- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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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/4290831
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-29 11:54:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4290831
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