LEADER 08160cpd a2200949 a 4500001 4297281 005 20180604132612.0 008 980731s1991 ctu heb d 035 HVT-3242 035 4297281 035 |9FLX1569YL 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)1005104328 090 |bHVT-3242 100 1 K., Bronia, |d1923- 245 10 Bronia K. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3242) |h[videorecording], |fNovember 21, 1991 and other dates. 260 Tel Aviv, Israel : |bFortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |c1991. 300 multiple videorecordings (21 hr., 50 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Bronia K., who was born in Grodno, Poland (presently Hrodna, Belarus) in 1923, the eldest of four children. She recalls her family's poverty; celebrating Jewish holidays in their secular home; attending a Jewish pre-school, a public school, a Yiddish school for a year in 1933, then gymnasium; studying violin; participating in Zionist youth groups; committing to Deror; a local pogrom; Soviet occupation in 1939; destruction of their home during the June 1941 German invasion; fleeing to a nearby village for a week; obtaining food by doing agricultural work with her sisters for the Germans; ghettoization in the fall; learning of mass killings from Mordecai Tenenbaum, who had escaped from Vilnius; Deror becoming a resistance unit; being sent to an organizing meeting in the Białystok ghetto because she looked Polish; returning home; being sent to another meeting in Białystok in spring 1942 (she never saw her family again); recruiting resistance support in the Dąbrowa Górnicza, Suchowola, and Jasionówka ghettos; living in a kibbutz in the Białystok ghetto; forced labor in a German uniform factory; sabotaging the work; singing Yiddish translations of Italian operas during work breaks; illness from malnutrition; Tenenbaum obtaining medical care for her; being given false papers in December 1942 to serve as a resistance courier; and traveling often to Warsaw. 520 8 Ms. K. recounts living outside the ghetto; working as a maid to German railroad conductors; contact with the ghetto while living as a Pole, including frequent letters from Tenenbaum; smuggling weapons; finding a hiding place outside the ghetto for Tenenbaum's archive; five Jewish women joining her, including Haika Grossman; continuing to smuggle herself into the ghetto; observing public hangings; the ghetto uprising and liquidation; helping others escape; bringing weapons to partisans in the forest; the deaths of several of her friends in hiding; remaining at her job to allay suspicions; translating for Soviet partisan negotiations with Armia Krajowa, who refused to let Jews join them; liberation by Soviet troops in summer 1944; unsuccessful efforts to locate Tenenbaum's archive; meeting her future husband; her job as Director of Arts and Culture (no one knew she was Jewish); a trip to Lublin; hearing many Poles rue the return of Jews; being sent to Warsaw to relate the Białystok ghetto history to Jewish leaders; learning of camp experiences from returning survivors; organizing a kibbutz in Gdańsk; observing terrible conditions for Jews in displaced persons camps in Munich; her future husband's illness; being smuggled to Geneva with him in summer 1946; his eventual recovery; training as a translator; their emigration to Israel; and working for Yad Vashem starting in the mid-1950s. Ms. K. discusses many people, episodes, and conflicts among Zionist and resistance groups; the recovery of Tenenbaum's archive; and return trips to Poland. 546 This testimony is in Hebrew. 540 This testimony or excerpts from it cannot be used without prior consent of the donor. 500 Related publications: Ariadneh / Bronyah Ḳlibansḳi. - - Tel-Aviv : Geṿanim, c2002. 524 Bronia K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3242). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 544 1 |dRelated material: Bronia K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-76),Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 562 |e2 copies: |b3/4 in. master; |band 1/2 in. VHS with time coding. 600 10 K., Bronia, |d1923- 600 10 Tenenbaum, Mordecai, |d1916-1943. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82099659 600 10 Grossman, Haika, |d1919-1996. 610 20 Deror (Organization : Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82247578 610 10 Poland. |bPolskie Siły Zbrojne. |bArmia Krajowa. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80149707 610 20 Yad ṿa-shem, rashut ha-zikaron la-Shoʼah ṿela-gevurah. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79139449 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 Jews |zBelarus |zHrodna. 650 0 Jews |zPoland |zBiałystok. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xUnderground movements |zPoland. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010119158 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xUnderground movements |zBelarus. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113904 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xJewish resistance. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148517 650 0 Jews |zPoland |zSuchowola. 650 0 Jews |zPoland |zJasionówka. 650 0 Forced labor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453 650 0 Sabotage. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85116210 650 0 Jewish ghettos |vSongs and music. 650 0 Escapes. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85044783 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xAtrocities. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148285 650 0 Refugee camps. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87007802 651 0 Poland. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79131071 651 0 Hrodna (Belarus) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81059012 651 0 Warsaw (Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79018894 651 0 Białystok (Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81132523 651 0 Dąbrowa Górnicza (Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96105802 651 0 Suchowola (Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2003109327 651 0 Jasionówka (Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2003098023 651 0 Lublin (Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79089257 651 0 Geneva (Switzerland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81018331 651 0 Gdańsk (Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80004524 651 0 Munich (Germany) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79059670 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 690 4 Antisemitism |yPrewar. 690 4 Soviet occupation. 690 4 Partisans. 690 4 False papers. 690 4 Hiding. 690 4 Mutual aid. 690 4 Aid by non-Jews. 690 4 Forests. 690 4 Postwar experiences. 690 4 Postwar effects. 690 4 Antisemitism |yPostwar. 691 4 Grodno ghetto. 691 4 Białystok ghetto. 691 4 Suchowola ghetto. 691 4 Jasionówka ghetto. EG, p. 260 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b4676738 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.3242) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/154dn3zt11 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/