LEADER 05162cpd a2200673 a 4500001 4296756 005 20180530114004.0 008 980731s1991 ctu eng d 035 HVT-2378 035 4296756 035 |9FLX1041YL 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)1005109366 090 |bHVT-2378 100 1 B., Esther, |d1928- 245 10 Esther B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2378) |h[videorecording] / |cinterviewed by David Herman and Elliot Perry, |fJanuary 18, 1991. 260 London, England : |bBritish Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |c1991. 300 1 videorecording (5 hr., 1 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Esther B., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1928, the youngest of three children. She recounts her family's secularism; her father's leadership position in the Bund; attending a Bund school; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; one brother fleeing to the Soviet zone (she never saw him again); her father fleeing after a warning from his pro-Nazi friend (she never saw him again); ghettoization; attending a ghetto school; eating at public kitchens funded by the Joint; participating in SKIF, the Bund youth group; her mother's hospitalization; hiding during round-ups; forced labor; her brother's deportation; deportation with her mother to Auschwitz/Birkenau; their separation upon arrival (she never saw her again); transfer to Hambühren; slave labor clearing bombing rubble; singing and reciting poetry with others to maintain hope; a death march to Bergen-Belsen; illness resulting in loss of consciousness; liberation by British troops; many deaths; transfer to Malmö, Sweden to recuperate; living in a Bundist group home; learning her brother was alive; emigration to join him in England in 1947; working in a Yiddish theater; marriage; and the births of two children. Ms. B. discusses her immediate impulse to share her story, but the reluctance of others to hear it; continuing to stockpile food as a result of her experiences; trying not to impose her sorrow on her children, although they told her they were aware of it; and recently visiting Poland with her family. She shows photographs. 524 Esther B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2378). 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 B., Esther, |d1928- 610 20 Allgemeyner Idisher arbayṭerbund in Liṭa, Poylen un Rusland. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50073279 610 20 American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50079799 610 20 Auschwitz (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96112360 610 20 Birkenau (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96068007 610 20 Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96065702 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 World War, 1939-1945 |xChildren. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148359 650 0 Jewish children in the Holocaust. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96005877 650 0 Jewish ghettos. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95007077 650 0 Jews |zPoland |zŁódź. 650 0 Forced labor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453 650 0 Concentration camps |vSongs and music. 650 0 Concentration camps |xPsychological aspects. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85029590 651 0 Poland. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79131071 651 0 Łódź (Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80093570 651 0 Malmö (Sweden) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79110167 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 690 4 Child survivors. 690 4 Antisemitism |yPrewar. 690 4 Aid by non-Jews. 690 4 Hospitals in Jewish ghettos. 690 4 Hiding. 690 4 Mutual aid. 690 4 Postwar experiences. 690 4 Postwar effects. 690 4 Survivor-child relations. 691 4 Łódź ghetto. 691 4 Hambühren (Germany : Concentration camp) 700 1 Perry, Elliot, |einterviewer. 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b4676210 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.2378) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/3j3901zf93 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/