- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Roma B., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1926. She recalls German invasion in September; ghettoization; joining Hashomer Hatzair; her brother's bar mitzvah; hiding during round-ups; her father arranging her transfer to a farm in July 1942; learning her family was deported (she never saw them again); returning to Warsaw; transfer to a labor camp; returning to Warsaw in January 1943; hiding with relatives during the April 1943 uprising; their discovery; deportation to Majdanek; transfer to Auschwitz; assignment to Canada Kommando; public hanging of Mala Zimetbaum who slit her own wrists; the Sonderkommando revolt; a death march, then transport to Ravensbrück; transfer to Malchow; sabotaging her munitions work; the guards leaving in May 1945; liberation; searching for relatives in Łódź and Warsaw; living with cousins in Allenstein (Olsztyn), posing as Christians; traveling to Berlin; living in the UNRRA camp, Schlactensee; moving to Eschwege; medical studies in Frankfurt; and emigration to Israel in May 1948 via Strasbourg and Marseille. Mrs. B. discusses details of camp and ghetto life; the importance of friends to her survival; loss of dignity and constant terror; reluctance to share her experiences; the Six Day War as the "first crack" in the "wall" around her memory; gradually sharing her experiences; and visiting Malchow and Ravensbrück in 1995.
- Author/Creator
- B., Roma, 1926-
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1999
- Interview Date
- April 8, 1999.
- Locale
- Poland
Warsaw
Warsaw (Poland)
Łódź (Poland)
Berlin (Germany)
Olsztyn (Województwo Warmińsko-Mazurskie, Poland)
Eschwege (Germany)
Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
Strasbourg (France)
Marseille (France)
- Cite As
- Roma B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3863). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Cohen, Frances Proctor, interviewer.
Katz, Barbara Hadley, interviewer.
