Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Helen C., who was born in Lypcha, Ukraine (then the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy) in approximately 1917, one of five siblings. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; working on their farm; becoming a seamstress; Hungarian occupation in 1938; anti-Jewish restrictions; moving to Budapest in 1942; working as a housekeeper; incarceration in a brick factory; deportation to Ravensbrück; slave labor; being subjected to painful medical experiments; sharing food with a fellow prisoner; transfer to Rechlin after one year; praying to herself; escaping from a death march; liberation by Soviet troops; walking to Berlin; hospitalization; returning home in August 1945; reunion with her brother; traveling illegally to Prague, then Germany, with assistance from the Haganah; living in Bad Reichenhall displaced persons camp; assistance from the Joint and the Red Cross; marriage; her husband's job for UNRRA; recuperating from lung disease in a sanatorium; and emigration with her husband and brother to join relatives in the United States in 1949. Ms. C. notes the killing of fifty relatives; retaining her faith; nightmares of fleeing from Nazis; and sharing her experiences with her children.
- Published
- Cleveland, Ohio : National Council of Jewish Women, Holocaust Archive Project, 1984
- Interview Date
- December 13, 1984.
- Locale
- Austria
Lypcha (Ukraine)
Budapest (Hungary)
Berlin (Germany)
Prague (Czech Republic) - Cite As
- Helen C. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-468). 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 (2 hr., 31 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Hungarian occupation.
Mutual aid.
Postwar experiences.
Postwar effects.
Survivor-child relations. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Death marches. Forced labor. Human experimentation in medicine. Concentration camps--Psychological aspects. Escapes. Faith. Nightmares. Refugee camps. Austria. Lypcha (Ukraine) Budapest (Hungary) Berlin (Germany) Prague (Czech Republic) Oral histories (document genres) C., Helen,--1917?- Ravensbrück (Concentration camp) Rechlin (Concentration camp) Bad Reichenhall (Displaced persons camp) Haganah (Organization) United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. 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/4293832
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:28:00
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