Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Bela G., who was born in Radzyń Podlaski, Poland, one of four sisters. She recounts attending school; German invasion; ghettoization; forced factory labor; round-ups; hiding in a bunker for eight days; transfer to Miedzyrzec Podlaski ghetto; briefly returning to Radzyń with her family, then going back to Miedzyrzec; hiding with her father during a round-up (her mother was deported and killed); deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her father; sending bread to him through a friend; a privileged assignment to the Canada Kommando; sharing extra food with a friend; treatment by a dentist at the hospital; her cousin saving her from a selection; transfer to Maehrisch-Weisswasser; slave labor in a munitions factory; punishment for taking extra food; liberation by Soviet troops; many deaths resulting from overeating; traveling to Munich eight months later; reunion with her cousin; assistance from UNRRA; traveling illegally to Paris to join a cousin; working for ORT; marriage in 1947; the births of two children; and emigration to the United States in 1959. Ms. G. discusses guilt and anger resulting from being the only survivor of her immediate family; nightmares; and the impact of her experiences on her child rearing.
- Published
- Dallas, Tex. : Memorial Center for Holocaust Studies, 1985
- Interview Date
- October 27, 1985.
- Locale
- Poland
Międzyrzec Podlaski
Radzyń Podlaski
Radzyń Podlaski (Poland)
Munich (Germany)
Paris (France) - Cite As
- Bela G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-730). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 4 copies: 3/4 in. dub; Betacam SP restoration master; Betacam SP restoration submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 27 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Child survivors.
Mutual aid.
Hiding.
Bunkers.
Hospitals in concentration camps.
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. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Jewish children in the Holocaust. Forced labor. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Międzyrzec Podlaski. Jews--Poland--Radzyń Podlaski. Fathers and daughters. Sisters. Concentration camp inmates--Family relationships. Friendship. Nightmares. Poland. Radzyń Podlaski (Poland) Munich (Germany) Paris (France) Oral histories (document genres) G., Bela. Auschwitz (Concentration camp) United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. World ORT Union.
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/4294229
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:28:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4294229
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