LEADER 05178cpd a2200649 a 4500001 4298247 005 20180604133227.0 008 980731s1993 ctu heb d 035 4298247 035 HVT-3554 035 |9FLX2541YL 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)1005124548 090 |bHVT-3554 100 1 M., Helena, |d1923- 245 10 Helena M. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3554) |h[videorecording], |fJuly 1 and July 16, 1993. 260 Tel Aviv, Israel : |bFortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |c1993. 300 2 videorecordings (5 hr., 3 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Helena M., who was born in a Polish village in 1923, one of four children. She recounts her family's affluence; their orthodoxy; attending school in Bochnia; working on her family's farm; her father and brothers fleeing east; German invasion; hiding belongings with neighbors; Volksdeutsche evicting them; her father's and one brother's return; their transfer to Bochnia in 1942; escaping deportation (her parents and many other relatives were deported and killed); finding one brother; living in the Bochnia ghetto; forced labor at a sewing factory; hiding in a bunker during an aktion; deportation with her brother to Szebnie; slave labor in the laundry; public hangings and frequent killings; separation from her brother (she never saw him again); transfer to Auschwitz/Birkenau; posing as a non-Jew; the Germans believing her; being tried for being in the area illegally; imprisonment in Oświęcim, then Wadowice; forced labor cleaning the former ghetto; release; traveling to Kraków, then Bochnia; staying with several Polish families, continuing to pose as a Catholic Pole; traveling to Proszowice; working on a farm, then as a maid; liberation by Soviet troops; returning to her village; reunion with her brother who had been in the Soviet Union; marriage in Kraków; living in the Salzburg displaced persons camp; and emigration to Israel. Ms. M. discusses the loss of her entire family, except one brother; pervasive painful memories; not sharing her story; visiting Poland with her daughters; and Poles in her village denying they had stolen her family's property, claiming they purchased it. 546 This testimony is in Hebrew. 524 Helena M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3554). 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 M., Helena, |d1923- 610 20 Szebnie (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2004010755 610 20 Auschwitz (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96112360 610 20 Birkenau (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96068007 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 Escapes. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85044783 650 0 Forced labor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453 650 0 Brothers and sisters. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85017225 650 0 Refugee camps. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87007802 650 0 Jewish ghettos. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95007077 650 0 Jews |zPoland |zBochnia. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xAtrocities. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148285 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xPrisoners and prisons, German. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148474 651 0 Poland. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79131071 651 0 Bochnia (Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82010834 651 0 Oświęcim (Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81146701 651 0 Wadowice (Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85359280 651 0 Kraków (Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79125145 651 0 Proszowice (Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2013024628 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 690 4 Aid by non-Jews. 690 4 Antisemitism |yPostwar. 690 4 Hiding. 690 4 Postwar experiences. 690 4 Postwar effects. 691 4 Bochnia ghetto. 691 4 Salzburg (Austria : Refugee camp) 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b4677722 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.3554) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/0v89g5gd2j 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/