LEADER 08000cpd a2200949 a 4500001 4297292 005 20180529114716.0 008 980731s1991 ctu heb d 035 (OCoLC)ocn702235455 035 HVT-3248 035 |9FLX1581YL 035 4297292 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)702158846 090 |bHVT-3248 100 1 H., Helena, |d1918?- 245 10 Helena H. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3248) |h[videorecording] / |cinterviewed by Anita Tarsi and Roni Stauber, |fJanuary 8, March 12, March 26, April 21, and July 13, 1991. 260 Tel Aviv, Israel : |bFortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |c1991. 300 5 videorecordings (2 hr., 3 min.; 2 hr., 4 min.; 2 hr., 3 min.; 2 hr., 5 min.; and 2 hr., 38 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Helena H., who was born in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Ukraine) in approximately 1918, one of six children. She recounts she and her sister living with a family in Turka to learn violin and attend school; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; attending a Zionist conference in Uz︠h︡horod; obtaining a visa to the United States in Lʹviv in 1939; Soviet occupation; joining her family in Turka; marriage to a physician; German invasion; Ukrainian violence against Jews; finding her cousin's body; round-ups and mass killings; her son's birth; hiding with a non-Jewish patient of her husband; arrest, interrogation and beating; a Nazi, another former patient, releasing her; vainly seeking someone to take her son in Lʹviv; deportation of her mother and three sisters; her father and siblings illegally entering Hungary; following them with her husband and son; a farmer offering to take her son to relatives in Mukachevo (she never saw him again); traveling to Budapest; and voluntarily entering a camp. 520 8 Ms. H. tells of separation from her husband; being removed from a train transport; transfer to Ricse; obtaining privileged kitchen work with assistance from a friend; her husband's transfer to Ricse; learning her father and sisters had been killed; transfer to another camp; escaping from a transport; capture; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in April 1944; observing Josef Mengele select twins; destroying some of the property of the dead she was sorting for German use; taking paper to write poetry; passing information to the Polish underground; public hangings; a death march to Bergen-Belsen (she took her poems and other evidence); contracting typhus; liberation by British troops; living in the refugee camp; testifying at the Lüneburg war crime trials of Irma Grese, Dr. Fritz Klein, Josef Kramer, and Franz Hössler; reunion with her husband in Rome; emigration to Palestine via Bari and Metaponto; interdiction by the British; incarceration in Cyprus; her daughter's birth; release; and her son's birth. Ms. H. discusses the social hierarchy in camps; her state of mind; not discussing her experiences due to Israeli public opinion making her feel ashamed of being a survivor; sharing some of her experiences with her son's class; never feeling certain that her first son was dead; and only telling her children about him when they were older. 546 This testimony is in Hebrew. 524 Helena H. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3248). 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., Helena, |d1918?- 600 10 Mengele, Josef, |d1911-1979. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81068925 600 10 Kramer, Josef, |d1906-1945. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83206116 600 10 Grese, Irma, |d1923-1945. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96036177 600 10 Hoessler, Franz, |d1906-1945. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2002102132 600 10 Klein, Fritz, |d1888-1945. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2002102133 610 20 World Hashomer Hatzair. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78023533 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 610 20 DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2012131298 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 Forced labor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453 650 0 Husband and wife. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85063204 650 0 Mothers and sons. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85087539 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |xPublic opinion. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105740 650 0 Public opinion |zIsrael. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008110225 650 0 Escapes. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85044783 650 0 Concentration camps |xSociological aspects. 650 0 Concentration camps |xPsychological aspects. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85029590 650 0 Sabotage. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85116210 650 0 Refugee camps. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87007802 650 0 Death marches. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95006384 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xAtrocities. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148285 650 0 War crime trials |zGermany |zLüneburg. 650 0 Poetry. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85103704 651 0 Austria. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79040121 651 0 Turka (Lʹvivsʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no97030491 651 0 Uz︠h︡horod (Ukraine) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81071620 651 0 Lʹviv (Ukraine) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80089801 651 0 Budapest (Hungary) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79091691 651 0 Lüneburg (Germany) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79065823 651 0 Metaponto (Italy) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88208577 651 0 Rome (Italy) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79018704 651 0 Bari (Italy) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79054584 651 0 Cyprus. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79055857 651 0 Palestine |xEmigration and immigration. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85097165 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 690 4 Antisemitism |yPrewar. 690 4 Soviet occupation. 690 4 Aid by non-Jews. 690 4 Hiding. 690 4 Mutual aid. 690 4 Concentration camps |xUnderground movements. 690 4 Survivor-child relations. 690 4 Postwar effects. 690 4 Postwar experiences. 691 4 Ricse (Hungary : Concentration camp) 700 1 Stauber, Roni, |einterviewer. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2001002887 700 1 Tarsi, Anita, |einterviewer. 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b4676749 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.3248) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/pc2t43j91x 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/