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Beatrice R. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1796) interviewed by Toby Blum-Dobkin,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1796

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    Videotape testimony of Beatrice R., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1928. She recalls her affluent home; the Anschluss; her father's deportation to Dachau, then Buchenwald, in 1938; sending him packages; her mother liquidating their assets; purchasing her father's passage to Shanghai to obtain his release; his emigration to Shanghai (her mother followed); her mother placing her on a children's transport to Paris; pleasant conditions in a castle; German invasion; transfer to another home; receiving false papers; transfer to a girls' religious home; deportations; her breakdown after many children were deported; a former teacher arranging to smuggle a group to Switzerland; interrogation in Geneva about the smugglers; living with a foster family; meeting her future husband; recovering her health while living with his family for a year; moving to Lugano to prepare for illegal immigration to Palestine; learning about concentration camps from survivors; illegal entry into Palestine in 1946; living on a kibbutz, then in Tel Aviv; reunion with her parents in San Francisco in 1951; living in Canada, New York, then Antwerp; and emigration to Israel twenty years later. She shows photographs and memorabilia.
    Author/Creator
    R., Beatrice, 1928-
    Published
    New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1991
    Interview Date
    May 23, 1991.
    Locale
    France
    Vienna (Austria)
    Austria
    Paris (France)
    Geneva (Switzerland)
    Lugano (Switzerland)
    Tel Aviv (Israel)
    Palestine
    Canada
    Antwerp (Belgium)
    Other Authors/Editors
    Blum-Dobkin, Toby, interviewer.

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Copies
    2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
    Physical Description
    1 videorecording (1 hr., 11 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Child survivors.
    False papers.
    Aid by non-Jews.
    Zionist organizations.
    Postwar experiences.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4296170
    Record last modified:
    2018-05-30 11:44:00
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