Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Rose B., who was born in Dămăcușeni, Romania in 1928, one of seven children. She recounts her family's affluence and their orthodoxy; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions, including her expulsion from school; deportation to the Dej ghetto, then Auschwitz in 1944; separation from her family (they were killed except for one brother); hospitalization; a nurse helping her; slave labor in the kitchen; encountering her brother; transfer to Kaufering in September; disposing of dead bodies during an epidemic; transfer to Dachau; liberation by United States troops; reunion with her brother in Bamberg; traveling to Munich; living in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp, on a kibbutz, and in Bamberg; feigning illness to stay in a hospital in Munich for six months; working; marriage; divorce three years later; emigration to the United States in 1950; marriage; and the births of two sons. Ms. B. notes difficulties bearing children and emotional scars resulting from her experiences. She shows photographs.
- Published
- Dallas, Tex. : Memorial Center for Holocaust Studies, 1987
- Interview Date
- January 25, 1987.
- Locale
- Romania
Dej
Dămăcușeni (Romania)
Bamberg (Germany)
Munich (Germany) - Cite As
- Rose B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-907). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 4 copies: 3/4 in. submaster; Betacam SP restoration master; Betacam SP restoration submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 51 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Child survivors.
Hungarian occupation.
Hospitals in concentration camps.
Mutual aid.
Postwar experiences.
Postwar effects. - 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. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Romania--Dej. Forced labor. Brothers and sisters. Refugee camps. Romania. Dămăcușeni (Romania) Bamberg (Germany) Munich (Germany) Oral histories (document genres) B., Rose,--1928- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Kaufering (Concentration camp) Dachau (Concentration camp) DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen.
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/4294462
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:28:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4294462
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