a| HVT-4083

a| 4677221

9| FNM5411YL

a| CtY b| eng c| CtY e| appm

a| (OCoLC)999860589

b| MS 1322

b| HVT-4083

a| W., Itta, d| 1927-

a| Itta W. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4083) h| [videorecording] / c| interviewed by Yannis Thanassekos and Michel Rosenfeldt, f| March 10 and 19, 1997.

a| Brussels, Belgium : b| Fondation Auschwitz, c| 1997.

a| 2 videorecordings (2 hr., 36 min., and 2 hr., 57 min.) : b| col.

a| Videotape testimony of Itta W., who was born in Częstochowa, Poland in 1927. She recounts her family's emigration to Brussels in 1928; her brother's birth when she was five; a happy childhood; attending a music academy; cordial relations with non-Jews; German invasion; briefly fleeing to Tournai; anti-Jewish restrictions; a non-Jewish friend offering to marry her to save her from deportation; their sham marriage; hiding briefly in the Ardennes, then with her brother in her “husband's” apartment (her parents hid elsewhere); visiting her parents once; arrest; transfer to Malines in June 1943; her brother's hospitalization; deportation in August to Auschwitz/Birkenau in a separate railway car from her brother (she never saw him again); being shaved and tattooed; the horrendous smell; a Belgian, Mala Zimetbaum, giving her shoes; a Belgian women recruiting her for the women's orchestra, a privileged position; receiving a violin; recruiting Fanny Korenblum from her transport, thus saving her life; playing as the prisoners marched to and returned from work, under the direction of Sofia Tchaikovska; Alma Rosé being appointed director; her death in April 1944; having no contact with those not in the orchestra; a sense of sisterhood with orchestra members, including Fania Fenelon and Anita Lasker; public hanging of Mala Zimetbaum; transfer of only the Jewish orchestra members to Bergen-Belsen in November; slave labor in a factory; sabotaging their work; contracting typhus; liberation by British troops in April 1945; placement in the Soltau displaced persons camp with other orchestra members; repatriation on May 20; reunion with her parents; divorce; marriage to a survivor; the births of two children; her husband's death in 1965; and remarriage. Ms. W. discusses close bonds with orchestra members; conflicts among national groups; her lack of belief in God being reinforced by her camp experiences; poor health prohibiting her from playing the violin; pervasive painful memories, particularly her brother's death; visiting Auschwitz with her husband; not sharing her experiences with her parents or children; and books by two orchestra members.

a| This testimony is in French.

a| Itta W. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4083). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

a| Related publication: Sursis pour l'orchestre / Fania Fénelon ; témoignage recueilli par Marcelle Routier. -- Paris : Stock,c1976.

a| Related publication: Inherit the truth, 1939-1945 : the documented experiences of a survivor of Auschwitz and Belsen / Anita Lasker-Wallfisch. -- London : Giles de la Mare, c1996.

e| 2 copies: b| Betacam SP dub; b| and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.

a| W., Itta, d| 1927-

a| Feinstein, Elsa Miller.

a| Birkenwald, Fanny Korenblum.

a| Tchaikovska, Sofia.

a| Rosé, Alma. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr95011401

a| Zimetbaum, Mala, d| 1918-1944. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96018410

a| Fénelon, Fania. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50002567

a| Lasker-Wallfisch, Anita. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97024854

a| Malines (Concentration camp) 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no97043298

a| Auschwitz (Concentration camp) 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96112360

a| Birkenau (Concentration camp) 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96068007

a| Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96065702

a| Holocaust survivors. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061527

a| Video tapes. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143214

a| Women. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85147274

a| Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) v| Personal narratives. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061518

a| World War, 1939-1945 v| Personal narratives, Jewish. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148465

a| World War, 1939-1945 x| Children. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148359

a| Jewish children in the Holocaust. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96005877

a| Interfaith marriage. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87002873

a| Brothers and sisters. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85017225

a| Husband and wife. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85063204

a| Concentration camps v| Songs and music.

a| Concentration camps x| Sociological aspects.

a| Concentration camps x| Psychological aspects. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85029590

a| World War, 1939-1945 x| Atrocities. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148285

a| Faith. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85046928

a| Friendship. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051992

a| Forced labor. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453

a| Sabotage. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85116210

a| Refugee camps. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87007802

a| Poland. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79131071

a| Częstochowa (Poland) 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50065728

a| Brussels (Belgium) 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79013830

a| Tournai (Belgium) 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81119791

a| Ardennes. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85006979

a| Oral histories (document genres) 2| aat 0| http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595

a| Musicians. 2| lcsh 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85089027

a| Child survivors.

a| Aid by non-Jews.

a| Mutual aid.

a| Postwar experiences.

a| Hiding.

a| Survivor-child relations.

a| Postwar effects.

a| Soltau (Germany : Refugee camp)

a| Auschwitz Orchestra.

a| Thanassekos, Yannis, e| interviewer. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80110927

a| Rosenfeldt, Michel, e| interviewer.

a| Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, b| Yale University Library, e| Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240.

b| 5070353

y| Digital testimony (mssa.hvt.4083) u| https://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/mg7fq9qd3w

y| For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. u| https://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/