- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Betty B., who was born in approximately 1924, one of seven children. She recounts living in Łańcut, Poland; attending Polish and Hebrew schools; one brother's emigration to Argentina; an "atmosphere" of antisemitism; German invasion; her sister and family joining them; anti-Jewish restrictions; another brother fleeing to Soviet-occupied territory; living in Rączyna; her father's deportation in May 1942 (she never saw him again); a round-up with her mother, two sisters, a brother-in-law and his children in July; escaping; joining two sisters in another town; hiding with non-Jews in several places, including Wysoka; her older sister's denouncement and arrest; hiding with her younger sister and three-year-old nephew in Sonina; assistance from her brother-in-law who was hiding elsewhere; learning of his denouncement and murder; liberation by Soviet troops in summer 1944; joining a group of survivors, including her future husband; traveling to Kraków, then Wrocław; marriage in December 1945; living in displaced persons camps in Germany; assistance from UNRRA; her son's birth in 1950; and emigration to the United States. Ms. B. notes many non-Jews who helped them in hiding, and her ever-present fear, even after the arrival of Soviet troops.
- Author/Creator
- B., Betty, 1924?-
- Published
- Cleveland, Ohio : National Council of Jewish Women, Holocaust Archive Project, 1985
- Interview Date
- January 16, 1985.
- Locale
- Poland
Łańcut (Poland)
Wysoka (Poland)
Sonina (Poland)
Rączyna (Poland)
Kraków (Poland)
Wrocław (Poland)
Czechoslovakia
- Cite As
- Betty B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-514). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Weinberg, Sally, interviewer.
