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Beba L. Holocaust testimony (HVT-322) interviewed by Sarah Moskovitz,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-322

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Beba L., who was born in Vilna, Poland in 1925. She recounts her grandfather's partnership in Rom Publishing; attending private school; Soviet occupation; German invasion in June 1941; anti-Jewish restrictions; round-ups of people who never returned; ghettoization in September; being hidden with a non-Jewish family for three months; their priest's efforts to convert her (she did not care, if it led to her survival); visiting the ghetto, not intending to stay; finding her immediate family of seven gone; living with an aunt; receiving food from her former non-Jewish maid; working at Gestapo headquarters; passing information to the underground; transfer to Kaiserwald in September 1943; slave labor digging trenches and in a factory; and transfer to Toruń, then Stutthof. Ms. L. discusses relations between ethnic groups in camps; sabotage in the factory; prisoners beating a prisoner who worked too fast; and her sense she would not survive.
Author/Creator: L., Beba, 1925-
Published: Northridge, Calif. : Child Survivor Archive at California State University, Northridge, 1984
Interview Date: June 20, 1984.
Locale: Lithuania
Vilnius
Poland
Vilnius (Lithuania)
Cite As: Beba L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-322). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Moskovitz, Sarah, interviewer.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 3 copies: Betacam SP dub; 1/2 in. VHS dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (1 hr., 2 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Child survivors.
Soviet occupation.
Aid by non-Jews.
Hiding.
Mutual aid.
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 children in the Holocaust. Jews--Lithuania--Vilnius. Jewish ghettos. Identification (Religion) Forced labor. World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance. Sabotage. Concentration camps--Sociological aspects. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Psychological aspects. Poland. Vilnius (Lithuania) Oral histories (document genres) L., Beba,--1925- Kaiserwald (Concentration camp) Stutthof (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/4293410
Record last modified:: 2018-05-29 11:47:00
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