Shoshana B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3865)
Videotape testimony of Shoshana B., who was born in Belz, Ukraine in 1933, the younger of two sisters. She recounts her family's relative affluence; Soviet occupation; her family joining grandparents in Radekhiv; attending a Jewish school; German invasion; hiding during round-ups; her father's murder; she, her mother, and sister burying him in the cemetery; her sister volunteering for forced labor using false papers as a Pole; being hidden with non-Jews; leaving to return to her mother; hiding with her mother under a cow shed for eighteen months; a Jewish man joining them (he was armed); being moved to another barn; the Jewish man killing a German; hiding in a bunker; capture; transfer to Kamenka, then the Lʹviv ghetto; transfer to Płaszów, Auschwitz/ Birkenau, then Bergen-Belsen; her mother sharing extra food; liberation by British troops; hospitalization; their transfer to Helsingborg via Lübeck; recuperating in Kongaö; learning her sister had survived; traveling to Marseille; emigration to Palestine in May 1946; her sister joining them; marriage; and the births of three children. Ms. B. discusses testifying in a war crimes trial in Stuttgart. She shows photographs and documents.
- Published
- Tel Aviv, Israel : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1996
- Interview Date
- November 7 and November 15, 1996.
- Locale
- Ukraine
Radekhiv (Lʹvivsʹka oblastʹ)
Lʹviv
Germany
Stuttgart
Poland
Belz (Ukraine)
Radekhiv (Lʹvivsʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine)
Kamenka-Bugskai︠a︡ (Ukraine)
Lübeck (Germany)
Helsingborg (Sweden)
Kongaö (Sweden)
Palestine
Marseille (France) - Language
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Hebrew
- Copies
- 2 copies: Betacam SP master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Cite As
- Shoshana B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3865). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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View in Yale University Library Catalog: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4466966
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