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Rose K. Holocaust testimony (HVT-912) interviewed by Kay Hale and Debbie McFadden,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-912

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Rose K., who lived in Bełchatów, Poland, one of three sisters. She recounts her father's death when she was very young; working for her sister as a dressmaker; German invasion; fleeing to Łódź; returning to find their home had been robbed; her non-Jewish landlord assisting her after a severe beating by a German soldier; forced labor; a public hanging; transfer to Łódź ghetto with her mother, sisters, and her sister's children; slave labor in a textile factory; assistance from cousins with whom she is still close; after two years, deportation to Auschwitz with a sister and nieces, then to Sasel a week later; slave labor clearing bombing rubble in Hamburg; one niece's death; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; liberation by British troops; three months hospitalization in Bergen; transfer to Sweden; emigration to the United States; and marriage in 1953. Ms. K. discusses her close relationship with her surviving niece and her husband.
Author/Creator: K., Rose.
Published: Dallas, Tex. : Memorial Center for Holocaust Studies, 1987
Interview Date: February 22, 1987.
Locale: Poland
Łódź
Bełchatów (Poland)
Hamburg (Germany)
Bergen (Celle, Germany)
Sweden
Cite As: Rose K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-912). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Hale, Kay, interviewer.
McFadden, Debbie, interviewer.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 4 copies: 3/4 in. dub; Betacam restoration master; Betacam restoration submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (1 hr., 30 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Mutual aid.
Aid by non-Jews.
Postwar experiences.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Łódź. Forced labor. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Sisters. Families. Concentration camp inmates--Family relationships. Bełchatów (Poland) Hamburg (Germany) Bergen (Celle, Germany) Sweden. Oral histories (document genres) K., Rose. Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Sasel (Concentration camp) Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
Special Collection: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

Link to Yale University Library Catalog:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4294476
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:28:00
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