LEADER 04253cpd a2200577 a 4500001 4294844 005 20180530113313.0 008 980731s1987 ctu eng d 035 (OCoLC)ocn702234783 035 HVT-1182 035 |9FLW9089YL 035 4294844 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)702157637 090 |bHVT-1182 100 1 H., Helen, |d1924- 245 10 Helen H. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1182) |h[videorecording] / |cinterviewed by Daniel Gover and Jodie Frank, |fNovember 17, 1987. 260 Union, N.J. : |bKean College Oral Testimonies Project, |c1987. 300 1 videorecording (1 hr., 15 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Helen H., who was born in Polina, Czechoslovakia in 1924, the second of four children. She recalls cordial relations with non-Jews; Hungarian occupation; increasingly restrictive anti-Jewish regulations; ghettoization in another town in 1944; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her mother, father, and brother (she never saw her parents again); slave labor moving rocks; learning of the mass killing and crematoria; wanting to die; a friend encouraging her to care for her younger sisters; assignment to the Canada Kommando; smuggling clothing to the barracks; punishment for efforts to observe Yom Kippur; separation from her sisters; transport to Weisswasser; French civilian workers passing them notes; sabotaging the work; threats that every tenth prisoner would be killed if sabotage continued; desertion by the guards; Czech civilians sheltering them; traveling home; reunion with her sisters en route, then with their brother; living in Budapest; her younger sister's emigration to the United States in 1947, then her own, with her sister and brother, in 1949; and marriage to a survivor she knew in Europe. Ms. H. discusses adapting to dehumanization, but not fear; remaining with friends; and pervasive memories of screams and burning human flesh. 524 Helen H. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1182). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 562 |e2 copies: |b3/4 in. dub; |band 1/2 in. VHS with time coding. 600 10 H., Helen, |d1924- 610 20 Auschwitz (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96112360 650 0 Holocaust survivors. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061527 650 0 Video tapes. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143214 650 0 Women. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85147274 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |vPersonal narratives. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061518 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |vPersonal narratives, Jewish. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148465 650 0 Jewish ghettos. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95007077 650 0 Sisters. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85123008 650 0 Concentration camps |xPsychological aspects. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85029590 650 0 Forced labor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453 650 0 Concentration camp inmates |xReligious life. 650 0 Sabotage. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85116210 651 0 Polina (Slovakia) 651 0 Czechoslovakia. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81032269 651 0 Budapest (Hungary) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79091691 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 690 4 Aid by non-Jews. 690 4 Postwar experiences. 690 4 Postwar effects. 690 4 Mutual aid. 690 4 Hungarian occupation. 690 4 Canada Kommando. 691 4 Weisswasser (Czechoslovakia : Concentration camp) 700 1 Frank, Jodie, |einterviewer. 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b4674246 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.1182) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/w950g3hb97 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/