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Bella H. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3437) interviewed by Beatrice Harrison and Josie Riger,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-3437

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Bella H., who was born in Bilky, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1924, one of seven children. She recounts a happy childhood despite her family's poverty; a large, extended family; attending Czech school; Hungarian occupation; her brother's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; deportation to the Berehovo ghetto, then to Auschwitz about five weeks later; remaining with her sister (she never saw her mother or younger brothers again); a brief encounter with her father, when she was beaten for running to him (she never saw him again); transfer to Boizenburg; slave labor in an airplane factory; Allied bombings; sharing food with her sister and a cousin; a fellow prisoner giving birth (the baby was taken away); a death march; liberation by British troops in Ludwigslust; traveling to Teplice, then Budapest; finding an uncle and cousin; reunion with her brother in Prague; searching for another brother in Theresienstadt; moving to Fürth displaced persons camp; emigration with her brother and sister in 1947 to join relatives in the United States; marriage; and the births of two children. Ms. H. discusses pervasive, painful memories.
    Author/Creator
    H., Bella, 1924-
    Published
    Mahwah, N.J. : Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 1996
    Interview Date
    March 13, 1996.
    Locale
    Ukraine
    Berehove
    Czechoslovakia
    Bilky (Zakarpatsʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine)
    Ludwigslust (Germany : Landkreis)
    Teplice (Czech Republic)
    Prague (Czech Republic)
    Budapest (Hungary)
    Terezín (Ústecký kraj, Czech Republic)
    Cite As
    Bella H. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3437). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Riger, Josie, interviewer.
    Harrison, Beatrice, interviewer.

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Copies
    4 copies: 3/4 in. dub; Betacam SP restoration master; Betacam SP restoration submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
    Physical Description
    1 videorecording (58 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Hungarian occupation.
    Mutual aid.
    Postwar experiences.
    Postwar effects.
    Childbirth in concentration camps.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4297514
    Record last modified:
    2018-06-04 13:25:00
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