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Bella M. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2507) interviewed by Alys Kremer Grossman,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2507

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Bella M., who was born in Boryslav, Poland in 1932. She recalls her family's affluence; brief German invasion, then Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in 1941; anti-Jewish restrictions; hiding with non-Jewish neighbors, in a bunker they built, then with various non-Jews during round-ups; denunciation by the person hiding them when they ran out of money; imprisonment; transfer to a labor camp; escaping; hiding in a forest; capture; return to the labor camp; public execution of escapees; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; gender separation (she never saw her brother or father again); hospitalization; her mother's visits; release; useless slave labor; a baby's birth (the baby was disposed of in the latrine); slave labor in the weaving area; her mother's hospitalization; faking illness to stay with her; remaining when everyone left in January 1945; liberation by Soviet troops; transfer to Katowice; living in a convent, a Jewish center, and a children's home in Chorzów; threatened violence; moving to Bytom, then to Germany; living in Bad Reichenhall and Aschau displaced persons camp; and emigration to the United States in 1949. Ms. M. discusses help from Americans, HIAS, UNRRA, and the Joint; marriage in 1955; her three children; focusing on the future; and her mother's continuing guilt. She shows photographs.
    Author/Creator
    M., Bella, 1932-
    Published
    Mahwah, N.J. : Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 1993
    Interview Date
    October 21, 1993.
    Locale
    Poland
    Boryslav (Ukraine)
    Katowice (Poland)
    Chorzów (Województwo Śląskie, Poland)
    Bytom (Poland)
    Cite As
    Bella M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2507). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Grossman, Alys Kremer, interviewer.

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Copies
    2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
    Physical Description
    1 videorecording (1 hr., 34 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Postwar effects.
    Antisemitism Postwar.
    Postwar experiences.
    Childbirth in concentration camps.
    Hospitals in concentration camps.
    Forests.
    Mutual aid.
    Aid by non-Jews.
    Bunkers.
    Soviet occupation.
    Child survivors.
    Subjects
    Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Jewish children in the Holocaust. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Ukrainian. Mothers and daughters. Fathers and daughters. Brothers and sisters. Families. Escapes. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Forced labor. Convents. Refugee camps. Poland. Boryslav (Ukraine) Katowice (Poland) Chorzów (Województwo Śląskie, Poland) Bytom (Poland) Oral histories (document genres) M., Bella,--1932- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp) HIAS (Agency) American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. Bad Reichenhall (Displaced persons camp)

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4318162
    Record last modified:
    2018-06-04 13:30:00
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