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a| CtY
b| eng
c| CtY
e| appm
a| Rena S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2126)
h| [videorecording] /
c| interviewed by David Herman,
f| February 24, 1993.
a| London, England :
b| British Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies,
c| 1993.
a| 1 videorecording (56 min.) :
b| col.
a| Videotape testimony of Rena S., who was born in Zduńska Wola, Poland in 1929. She recalls a comfortable life; visiting grandparents in Kalisz and Łódź; German invasion in September 1939; walking to Łódź; returning home shortly thereafter; confiscation of their home; living with grandparents in Kalisz; confiscation of their home; returning to her parents; ghettoization; her younger sister's selection in 1942 (she never saw her again); rail transport to the Łódź ghetto; living with relatives; forced factory labor; hospitalization for typhus; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in 1944; separation from her father (she never saw him again); transfer with her mother to Hamburg; slave labor demolishing buildings; transfer to Poppenbüttel; doing roadwork; separation from her mother; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; finding her mother; liberation by British troops; hospitalization; her mother's death; marking her grave; living in the displaced persons camp; returning to Łódź with an aunt, then back to Germany; living in Munich; assistance from the Joint; living in Berck-Plage, Paris, a children's home in Versailles, and with relatives in Paris; emigration to London in 1949; marriage; and raising two children. Ms. S. discusses numbness in the camps; losing her belief in God; slowly recovering her faith; and never sharing her story before.
a| This testimony cannot be used for commercial purposes, nor can it be edited.
a| Rena S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2126). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
e| 2 copies:
b| 3/4 in. dub;
b| and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
a| Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96112360
a| Birkenau (Concentration camp)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96068007
a| Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96065702
a| American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50079799
a| DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2012131298
a| Holocaust survivors.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061527
a| Video tapes.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143214
a| Women.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85147274
a| Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
v| Personal narratives.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061518
a| World War, 1939-1945
v| Personal narratives, Jewish.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148465
a| World War, 1939-1945
x| Children.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148359
a| Jewish children in the Holocaust.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96005877
a| Jewish ghettos.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95007077
a| Jews
z| Poland
z| Łódź.
a| Jews
z| Poland
z| Zduńska Wola.
a| Forced labor.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453
a| Concentration camps
x| Psychological aspects.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85029590
a| Mothers and daughters.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85087538
a| Refugee camps.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87007802
a| Faith.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85046928
a| Versailles (France)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79026909
a| Paris (France)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79058874
a| Munich (Germany)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79059670
a| Kalisz (Poland)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80113269
a| Łódź (Poland)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80093570
a| Zduńska Wola (Poland)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97047510
a| Poland.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79131071
a| Oral histories (document genres)
2| aat
0| http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595
a| Hospitals in Jewish ghettos.
a| Hamburg (Germany : Concentration camp)
a| Poppenbüttel-Sasel (Germany : Concentration camp)
a| Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies,
b| Yale University Library,
e| Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240.
y| Digital testimony (mssa.hvt.2126)
u| https://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/dv1cj87q7t
y| For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
u| https://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/