a| (OCoLC)ocn702234583

a| HVT-608

9| FLW8306YL

a| 4294073

a| CtY b| eng c| CtY e| appm

a| (OCoLC)702157095

b| HVT-608

a| W., Bertha.

a| Bertha W. Holocaust testimony (HVT-608) h| [videorecording] / c| interviewed by Rena Borau, f| July 15, 1983.

a| Greenwich, Conn. : b| Second Generation of Westchester, c| 1983.

a| 1 videorecording (1 hr., 11 min.) : b| col.

a| Videotape testimony of Bertha W., one of ten children, who grew up in Mukacheve (presently Ukraine). She recalls her family's orthodoxy; attending a Hungarian school; their move to a mixed neighborhood in 1918; cordial relations with non-Jews during the Czech period; Hungarian occupation; the draft of three brothers into Hungarian slave labor battalions (another had emigrated to France); her father's death in 1941, and her mother's in 1943; ghettoization with her sisters in a brick factory for one week; deportation with one sister to Auschwitz in spring 1944; slave labor in a chemical factory; the arrival of another sister; sharing food with her; her selection for death; transfer with her other sister to Lenzing; a kitchen worker sharing extra food; liberation; traveling to Prague; learning one brother was dead; reunion with another brother who had been in the Soviet army; marriage to a survivor; moving to Heidenheim displaced persons camp; the births of two children; emigrating to the United States in 1949; and her sister's emigration to Australia. Ms. W. discusses sharing her experiences with her children; nightmares resulting from her experiences; and the impossibility of portraying the Holocaust in movies.

a| Bertha W. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-608). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

e| 4 copies: b| 1/2 in. VHS master; b| Betacam SP restoration master; b| Betacam SP restoration submaster; b| and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.

a| W., Bertha.

a| Auschwitz (Concentration camp) 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96112360

a| Holocaust survivors. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061527

a| Video tapes. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143214

a| Women. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85147274

a| Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) v| Personal narratives. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061518

a| World War, 1939-1945 v| Personal narratives, Jewish. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148465

a| Jewish ghettos. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95007077

a| Jews z| Ukraine z| Mukacheve.

a| Forced labor. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453

a| Sisters. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85123008

a| Concentration camp inmates x| Family relationships.

a| Refugee camps. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87007802

a| Nightmares. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091914

a| Mukacheve (Ukraine) 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88215715

a| Prague (Czech Republic) 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79055764

a| Oral histories (document genres) 2| aat 0| http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595

a| Hungarian occupation.

a| Mutual aid.

a| Postwar experiences.

a| Postwar effects.

a| Survivor-child relations.

a| Munkács ghetto.

a| Lenzing (Austria : Concentration camp)

a| Heidenheim (Germany : Refugee camp)

a| Borau, Rena, e| interviewer.

a| Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, b| Yale University Library, e| Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240.

b| 4673454

y| Digital testimony (mssa.hvt.0608) u| https://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/8c9r20rw42

y| For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. u| https://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/