LEADER 07496cpd a2200889 a 4500001 4298231 005 20180529115920.0 008 980731s1993 ctu heb d 035 (OCoLC)ocn794922480 035 HVT-3542 035 4298231 035 |9FLX2525YL 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)794913727 090 |bHVT-3542 100 1 W., Rita, |d1926- 245 10 Rita W. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3542) |h[videorecording], |fApril 30, May 7, May 16, May 21, and June 4, 1993. 260 Tel Aviv, Israel : |bFortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |c1993. 300 5 videorecordings (15 hr., 40 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Rita W., who was born in Dămăcușeni, Romania in 1926, one of seven children from her father's second marriage (his first wife, with whom he had five children, died in childbirth). She recounts her father's leadership of the Jewish community; his beating by Nazi sympathizers; Hungarian occupation in 1940; draft of her sisters' husbands into slave labor battalions; moving to a married sister's home in Reghin to assist with her business and family; German occupation in spring 1944; ghettoization with her sister and her children; deportation to Birkenau; separation from her sister (she and her children were killed); her sense of isolation among thousands of people; transfer to a camp in Lithuania a few days later; slave labor repairing German uniforms; decent treatment by the German camp commander; crying constantly; three sisters befriending her; a group of about thirty caring for each other; the religious women praying and informing them of holidays; her continuing belief that God would save them; transfer to Stutthof; public hangings; discussing food and recipes when not working; praying often; and fasting on Yom Kippur. 520 8 Ms. W. describes women giving birth (their babies were taken away); placement in a sick barrack; returning to her block; unknowingly eating soup with human flesh (she could not eat meat for years after); a death march, then boat transfer; liberation by British troops on May 3, 1945 in Neustadt in Holstein; hospitalization; losing her belief in God after learning of the mass killings; discarding food in front of captured Germans as a form of revenge; traveling to Bergen-Belsen, then Feldafing displaced persons camps; assistance from UNRRA, the Red Cross, and the Joint; traveling to Budapest; learning a brother-in-law had survived; reunion with the three sisters with whom she had been in camps; marriage to their brother in December 1945; the sisters leaving to emigrate to Palestine; learning the youngest sister was sick in Rome; traveling to Linz, Funk Kasserne, and Pocking displaced persons camps, then Rome, with assistance from Beriḥah; kind treatment by Italians; the sister's death; Ms. W.'s husband working with Beriḥah smuggling Jews to Italy for emigration to Palestine; their emigration in 1947; and fighting in the Israel-Arab War. Ms. W. discusses negative perceptions and treatment of survivors in Israel; not discussing her experiences; and frequent nightmares. 546 This testimony is in Hebrew. 524 Rita W. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3542). 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 W., Rita, |d1926- 610 20 Birkenau (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96068007 610 20 Stutthof (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no97029619 610 20 DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2012131298 610 20 American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50079799 610 20 United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79097409 610 20 International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr91029304 610 20 Beriḥah (Organization) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50073740 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 |zRomania |zReghin. 650 0 Forced labor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |xPsychological aspects. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061519 650 0 Concentration camp inmates |xFamily relationships. 650 0 Concentration camp inmates |xReligious life. 650 0 Faith. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85046928 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xAtrocities. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148285 650 0 Cannibalism. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85019617 650 0 Nightmares. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091914 650 0 Revenge. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85113420 650 0 Refugee camps. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87007802 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 Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068706 651 0 Romania. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79049551 651 0 Dămăcușeni (Romania) 651 0 Reghin (Romania) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83197901 651 0 Neustadt in Holstein (Germany) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90632114 651 0 Budapest (Hungary) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79091691 651 0 Rome (Italy) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79018704 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 690 4 Child survivors. 690 4 Antisemitism |yPrewar. 690 4 Hungarian occupation. 690 4 Mutual aid. 690 4 Childbirth in concentration camps. 690 4 Postwar experiences. 690 4 Postwar effects. 691 4 Reghin ghetto. 691 4 Feldafing (Germany : Refugee camp) 691 4 Linz (Austria : Refugee camp) 691 4 Funk Kaserne (Munich, Germany : Refugee camp) 691 4 Pocking (Passau, Germany : Refugee camp) 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b4677706 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.3542) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/q814m91n0c 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/