LEADER 06297cpd a2200781 a 4500001 4290906 005 20180529114705.0 008 980731s1994 ctu pol d 035 (OCoLC)ocn702233920 035 HVT-3170 035 |9FLW5104YL 035 4290906 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)702155431 090 |bHVT-3170 100 1 M., Helena, |d1911- 245 10 Helena M. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3170) |h[videorecording] / |cinterviewed by Barbara Engelking-Boni, |fJuly 13, 1994. 260 Warsaw, Poland : |bFortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |c1994. 300 1 videorecording (2 hr., 16 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Helena M., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1911, the fifth of six children. Ms. M. recalls her large extended and assimilated family's affluence; her father and one brother dying; one sister's emigration to the United States; studying psychology; working in a children's clinic with Adolf Berman; German invasion; ghettoization; working for CENTOS, an agency for orphans, which received funding from the Joint; contacts with Adam Czerniaków; working with Janusz Korczak, Stefania Wilczyńska, and other staff at Korczak's orphanage; deportations beginning in June 1942; observing Korczak accompanying his orphans for deportation; forced labor in a brush factory; providing information to Emanuel Ringelblum for the ghetto archives; meeting Mordecai Anielewicz; escaping with her mother, sister, brother, and his family in March 1943; working for the underground; living under false papers; meetings with Adolf Berman and others in the underground; avoiding exposure with assistance from Joseph Ziemian; assisting other Jews in hiding; moving to Piastów; traveling to Grodzisko as a courier to Yitzhak Zuckerman and Marek Edelman; her mother's death during the 1944 Warsaw Uprising; traveling to Zalesie to join her sister; and providing assistance to hidden Jews in Piastów. Ms. M. provides many details of life in the ghetto and hiding. She discusses Korczak's work and charisma; the loss of most of her family; wanting to survive to "spit on a German," which she did not do when she could have; attributing her survival to luck and having blue eyes; creating an archive in Warsaw for Jewish survivors; and working in children's radio programming. 546 This testimony is in Polish. 524 Helena M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3170). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 562 |e2 copies: |bBetacam SP master; |band 1/2 in. VHS with time coding. 600 10 M., Helena, |d1911- 600 10 Anielewicz, Mordecai, |d1919-1943. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr94030899 600 10 Berman, Adolf Abraham, |d1906- |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82137061 600 10 Edelman, Marek, |d1919-2009. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84099601 600 10 Korczak, Janusz, |d1878-1942. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79100733 600 10 Ringelblum, Emanuel, |d1900-1944. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50045182 600 10 Wilczyńska, Stefania, |d1886-1942. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr93038280 600 10 Czerniaków, Adam, |d1880-1942. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83195004 600 10 Ziemian, Joseph. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50013551 600 10 Zuckerman, Yitzhak, |d1915-1981. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84190302 610 20 American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50079799 650 0 Holocaust survivors. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061527 650 0 Video tapes. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143214 650 0 Women. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85147274 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |vPersonal narratives. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061518 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |vPersonal narratives, Jewish. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148465 650 0 Forced labor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xUnderground movements |zPoland. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010119158 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xJewish resistance. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148517 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |xPsychological aspects. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061519 650 0 Jewish ghettos. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95007077 650 0 Jews |zPoland |zWarsaw. 650 0 Families. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85047009 650 0 Orphanages |zPoland. 650 0 Escapes. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85044783 651 0 Poland. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79131071 651 0 Warsaw (Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79018894 651 0 Piastów (Pruszków, Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2014151381 651 0 Grodzisko (Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81122069 651 0 Zalesie (Poland) 651 0 Warsaw (Poland) |xHistory |yWarsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85145297 651 0 Warsaw (Poland) |xHistory |yUprising, 1944. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85145298 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 690 4 Aid by non-Jews. 690 4 Hiding. 690 4 False papers. 690 4 Mutual aid. 690 4 Postwar experiences. 691 4 Warsaw ghetto. 693 24 CENTOS (Federation of Associations for the Care of Orphans in Poland). 700 1 Engelking, Barbara, |d1962- |einterviewer. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no95013307 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b4670121 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.3170) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/m901z4234k 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/