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Chava L. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3803)

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Chava L., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1926, the older of two sisters. She recounts her family's relative affluence; attending a German, then a Slovak school, until the expulsion of Jews; her father's dismissal from his bank job; participating in a Zionist youth group beginning in 1938, despite her parents' disapproval; her mother's brothers converting to Christianity in 1939; her refusal to do so; living on a Zionist training farm; being sent home because she was under sixteen; helping produce false papers and ration coupons with her youth group; help from non-Jewish friends; Gordonyah members staying at their house; the 1944 Slovak uprising; a former cook hiding her family; deportation with her family to Auschwitz; separation from her parents (she never saw them again); remaining with her sister; their transfer to Freiberg; slave labor in an airplane factory; a fellow prisoner giving birth; observing the bombing of Dresden; train transfer to Mauthausen; Czechs bringing them food en route; liberation by United States troops; she and her sister returning home via Vienna; reunion with an aunt, uncle, and friend; attending a Zionist conference in Budapest; organizing a Jewish orphanage in Bratislava; assistance from the Joint; meeting her future husband in 1946; and emigration to Israel in 1949. Ms. L. discusses maintaining hope and helping each other, to which she attributes her survival; continuing strong bonds with fellow survivors; Israelis lack of interest in survivor experiences; pervasive painful memories and nightmares; sharing her experiences with her daughters; and visiting Bratislava with them in 1984, and several times afterward.
    Author/Creator
    L., Chava, 1926-
    Published
    Tel Aviv, Israel : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1995
    Interview Date
    October 26, and November 2, 1995.
    Locale
    Slovakia
    Israel
    Czechoslovakia
    Bratislava (Slovakia)
    Dresden (Germany)
    Vienna (Austria)
    Budapest (Hungary)
    Cite As
    Chava L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3803). 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. master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
    Physical Description
    2 videorecordings (3 hr., 56 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Child survivors.
    Antisemitism Prewar.
    Aid by non-Jews.
    False papers.
    Hiding.
    Mutual aid.
    Childbirth in concentration camps.
    Postwar experiences.
    Postwar effects.
    Survivor-child relations.
    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. Zionists. World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Slovakia. Forced labor. Sisters. Concentration camp inmates--Family relationships. Concentration camps--Psychological aspects. Nightmares. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Public opinion. Public opinion--Israel. Czechoslovakia. Bratislava (Slovakia) Slovakia--History--Uprising, 1944. Dresden (Germany)--History--Bombardment, 1945. Vienna (Austria) Budapest (Hungary) Oral histories (document genres) L., Chava,--1926- Gordonyah--Makabi ha-tsaʻir (Association) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Freiberg (Concentration camp) Mauthausen (Concentration camp) American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4383544
    Record last modified:
    2018-06-04 13:26:00
    This page:
    https:​/​/collections.ushmm.org​/search​/catalog​/hvt4383544

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