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Anka R. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3634)

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-3634

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Anka R., who grew up in Warsaw, Poland, one of six children. She recalls her marriage in 1938; food shortages after German invasion; ghettoization; her husband and a friend building two attached bunkers; hiding with twenty-one others during round-ups; hiding there with her husband, his brother and sister, and others during the ghetto uprising; some leaving after the larger bunker was destroyed; using drains to obtain food from Poles; her husband negotiating with Poles who killed him; staying with her brother-in-law and sister-in-law in the drains for three more days; exiting to the house of a Pole who helped them; and the Polish uprising. Ms. R. notes they hid in the bunker for nine months and only she and her sister-in-law survived the war.
Author/Creator: R., Anka.
Published: Tel Aviv, Israel : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1994
Interview Date: February 10, 1994.
Locale: Poland
Warsaw
Warsaw (Poland)
Cite As: Anka R. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3634). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Notes: This testimony is in Hebrew.

Physical Details

Language: Hebrew
Copies: 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (2 hr.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Bunkers.
Hiding.
Aid by non-Jews.
Husband Death.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Warsaw. Husband and wife. Escapes. Families. Warsaw (Poland) Warsaw (Poland)--History--Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943. Warsaw (Poland)--History--Uprising, 1944. Oral histories (document genres) R., Anka.

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
Special Collection: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

Link to Yale University Library Catalog:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4298500
Record last modified:: 2018-05-30 11:34:00
This page:: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4298500

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