Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Hudeza P., who was born in Poland in 1910. She recalls being orphaned and raised by extended family; emigrating to join a brother in Paris in May 1930; living with an uncle in Les Lilas; marriage in 1938; her daughter's birth in 1941; visiting her in-laws in Vigneux-sur-Seine; arrest and imprisonment in Paris; a guard allowing her to write a warning to her husband (she reads it); deportation to Drancy, then Auschwitz/Birkenau in March 1944; remaining with a friend; slave labor; beatings resulting in the loss of her teeth; one prisoner lighting Friday night candles; the pervasive smell of burning flesh; public hanging of an escapee; assistance from other prisoners on the death march to Ravensbrück, then Neustadt; liberation by Soviet troops; recuperating in Belgium with assistance from the Red Cross; returning to Paris in May 1945 to Hotel Lutetia; and reunion with her daughter, who was with her in-laws and didn't remember her. Ms. P. discusses relations between prisoner groups; envying those who did not have children to worry about; continuing closeness with her camp friend; abhorrence of nudity and never allowing herself to be hungry as a result of her experiences; and her daughter's interest in her experiences.
- Published
- Paris, France : Témoignages pour mémoire, 1996
- Interview Date
- January 26, 1996.
- Locale
- Poland
Paris (France)
Les Lilas (France)
Vigneux-sur-Seine (France)
Belgium - Cite As
- Hudeza P. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3447). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
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This testimony is in French.
Physical Details
- Language
- French
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 14 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Mutual aid.
Postwar experiences.
Survivor-child relations.
Postwar effects. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, French. Concentration camps--Psychological aspects. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Concentration camp inmates--Religious life. Forced labor. Friendship. Concentration camps--Sociological aspects. Death marches. Poland. Paris (France) Les Lilas (France) Vigneux-sur-Seine (France) Belgium. Oral histories (document genres) P., Hudeza,--1910- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Drancy (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp) Ravensbrück (Concentration camp) Neustadt-Glewe (Concentration camp) Hotel Lutetia (Paris, France) International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4291726
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-29 11:47:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4291726
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