LEADER 07004cpd a2200757 a 4500001 4395522 005 20180604132702.0 008 980731s1996 ctu eng d 035 HVT-3835 035 4395522 035 |9FMH0990YL 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)992800578 090 |bHVT-3835 100 1 A., Miriam, |d1923- 245 10 Miriam A. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3835) |h[videorecording], |fJuly 26 and August 8, 1996. 260 Tel Aviv, Israel : |bFortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |c1996. 300 2 videorecordings (9 hr., 24 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Miriam A., who was born in Suchdol, Czechoslovakia (presently Czech Republic) in 1923, the youngest of three children. She recounts being the only Jewish family in town; a happy childhood; cordial relations with non-Jews; attending school in Kutná Hora; antisemitic harassment by teachers; attending boarding schools where they did not know she was Jewish until March 1939; German occupation; visiting Jewish friends in neighboring Kolín; anti-Jewish laws, including travel bans and confiscation of her father's business; hiding valuables with non-Jewish friends, including a priest; her oldest brother being sent for forced labor; her father being beaten and her arrest for hiding goods; an SS man attempting to rape her; her parents' and brother's trials for hiding weapons; their imprisonments; deportation to Theresienstadt with her other brother; a privileged kitchen assignment; sharing extra food with her brother; assistance from women in her barrack; sham improvements for a Red Cross visit; learning her mother had been sent to Auschwitz; asking Jacob Edelstein, the Jewish head, to send her there; his refusal, saying there was “no life” there; hospitalization for a severe burn; deportation with her brother to Auschwitz/Birkenau in October 1944; their separation upon arrival; encountering her cousin's wife; emotional numbness; vainly calling for her brother when near the men's camp; and transfer to Bergen-Belsen. 520 8 Ms. A. recalls encountering a woman who had witnessed her mother's death; beatings; her cousin's wife assisting her; moving corpses to earn more soup; transfer in January 1945 to Raghun; slave labor in a factory; sabotaging her work; singing to raise morale; her brother's non-Jewish classmate smuggling food to her; sharing it with friends; hospitalization for typhus; placement with the dead; crawling away; train transfer to Theresienstadt; liberation; traveling to Prague; learning her brother and father had not survived; returning to Suchdol; reunion with her older brother; their return to Prague; his military draft; five months of hospitalizations; living with an antisemitic family; her brother's return; his marriage to a non-Jew; her emigration to Israel in 1949; marriage; a one-year hospitalization for tuberculosis, then five years of treatments; and the births of two daughters against medical advice. Ms. A. discusses relations among national groups in the camps; the negative impact of the rape attempt and camp experiences on her physical and mental health; nightmares; not sharing her experiences with her husband or daughters; and Israeli lack of interest in survivor experiences until the 1980s. She shows Theresienstadt currency and sings a camp song. 524 Miriam A. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3835). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 562 |e2 copies: |bBetacam SP master; |band 1/2 in. VHS with time coding. 600 10 A., Miriam, |d1923- 600 10 Edelstein, Jacob, |d-1944. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87920486 610 20 Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96065698 610 20 International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr91029304 610 20 Auschwitz (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96112360 610 20 Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96065702 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 World War, 1939-1945 |xPrisoners and prisons, German. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148474 650 0 Rape. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85111402 650 0 Brothers and sisters. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85017225 650 0 Forced labor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453 650 0 Concentration camps |xSociological aspects. 650 0 Concentration camps |xPsychological aspects. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85029590 650 0 Concentration camps |vSongs and music. 650 0 Sabotage. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85116210 650 0 Nightmares. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091914 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 651 0 Czechoslovakia. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81032269 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 691 4 Suchdol (Czech Republic) 651 0 Kutná Hora (Czech Republic) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84224807 651 0 Kolín (Czech Republic) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81077039 651 0 Prague (Czech Republic) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79055764 690 4 Child survivors. 690 4 Antisemitism |yPrewar. 690 4 Aid by non-Jews. 690 4 Postwar experiences. 690 4 Postwar effects. 690 4 Mutual aid. 690 4 Hospitals in concentration camps. 690 4 Antisemitism |yPostwar. 690 4 Survivor-child relations. 691 4 Raguhn (Germany : Concentration camp) 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b4778699 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.3835) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/2z12n4zm4f 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/