Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Ruth B., who was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1934, the first of two children. She recounts not knowing she was Jewish; attending Maccabi events; German invasion; her first sense of being Jewish based on anti-Jewish restrictions; her grandparents' deportation to Theresienstadt, then hers with her family in July 1942 (her grandfather died before their arrival); her father's assignments outside the camp; her mother and aunt working with the elderly, many of whom died; performing in the children's theater; sham improvements prior to a Red Cross visit; liberation by Soviet troops; living in her grandmother's village, Prague, and near Terezín; antisemitic harassment in school; emigration with her family to Israel in 1949; and living on a Hashomer Hatzair kibbutz. Ms. B. discusses their survival due to her father keeping them off the transport lists; Israeli lack of interest in the Holocaust; not discussing it, even in her family; nightmares; and always feeling like an outsider, both in Czechoslovakia and Israel.
- Published
- Tel Aviv, Israel : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1999
- Interview Date
- November 18, 1999.
- Locale
- Israel
Czechoslovakia
Prague (Czech Republic) - Cite As
- Ruth B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4157). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
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This testimony is in Hebrew.
Physical Details
- Language
- Hebrew
- Copies
- 2 copies: Betacam SP master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 37 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Child survivors.
Antisemitism Postwar.
Postwar experiences.
Postwar effects. - 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. Identification (Religion) Brothers and sisters. Fathers and daughters. Mothers and daughters. Concentration camp inmates--Family relationships. Nightmares. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Public opinion. Public opinion--Israel. Czechoslovakia. Prague (Czech Republic) Oral histories (document genres) B., Ruth,--1934- Maccabi World Union. Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. World Hashomer Hatzair.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4918848
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-30 11:33:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4918848
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