Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Leah B., who was born in Jarosław, Poland in approximately 1926. She describes her family's candy business; attending a private Hebrew school; attending Zionist summer camps; German invasion; she and her sister leaving her parents (she never saw them again); transfer with a group of Polish girls to a labor camp via Kraków; working in a radio factory; suspicious Ukrainians denouncing them; transfer to a prison in Weimar; interrogation; transfer to Auschwitz in February 1943; transfer to Birkenau; a brutal beating by a Jewish inmate for leaving the barracks to volunteer for a job; organizing her sister's release from the camp hospital; transfer to Auschwitz; work in a munitions factory; public hanging of prisoners who had blown up a crematorium; a death march in January; escaping in a group; hiding in a barn; a Catholic priest bringing them food; the priest hiding them; liberation by Soviet troops; traveling to Katowice; her marriage in 1946; returning briefly to Jarosław; traveling to a displaced persons camp in Germany; and emigrating to the United States with assistance from the Joint. Ms. B. mentions suffering from nightmares, nervousness, and headaches as a result of her experiences; and attributes her survival to her sister and luck.
- Published
- Cleveland, Ohio : National Council of Jewish Women, Holocaust Archive Project, 1984
- Interview Date
- October 30, 1984.
- Locale
- Poland
Jarosław (Poland)
Kraków (Poland)
Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)
Katowice (Poland) - Cite As
- Leah B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-369). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 21 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Child survivors.
Soviet occupation.
Mutual aid.
Hiding.
Aid by non-Jews.
Postwar effects.
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 children in the Holocaust. Forced labor. Sisters. Death marches. Nightmares. Zionists. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German. Escapes. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Poland. Jarosław (Poland) Kraków (Poland) Weimar (Thuringia, Germany) Katowice (Poland) Oral histories (document genres) B., Leah,--1926?- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
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/4293723
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:28:00
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