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Nava S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4159)

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-4159

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Nava S., who was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, one of four daughters. She recounts her assimilated family (she did not know she was Jewish until implementation of Hitler's anti-Jewish laws); working as an actress from childhood; German invasion; working to support her family; her non-Jewish fiancé leaving her due to anti-Jewish laws; joining a Zionist organization and studying Hebrew despite her parents' disapproval; deportation to Theresienstadt; living in a Hechalutz home; acting in a theater directed by Gustav Schorsch (her mother watched her performances); directing children's plays; attending cabarets directed by Kurt Gerron; sham improvements for a Red Cross visit; her sister finding a mattress for her mother; deportation of her parents and sister; liberation by Soviet troops; six months quarantine; returning to Prague; reunion with her youngest sister (another sister also survived); performing again; and emigration to Israel in 1948. She shows photographs, and discusses the publication of her autobiography in Israel.
Author/Creator: S., Nava.
Published: Tel Aviv, Israel : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1999
Interview Date: December 2, 1999.
Locale: Czechoslovakia
Prague (Czech Republic)
Cite As: Nava S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4159). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Notes: This testimony is in Hebrew.

Related publication: ‫ להיות שחקנית / נאוה שאן,‫ תל אביב : הקיבוץ המאוחד, 1991

Physical Details

Language: Hebrew
Copies: 2 copies: Betacam SP master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (1 hr., 40 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Theater in concentration camps.
Mutual aid.
Postwar experiences.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Identification (Religion) Mothers and daughters. Sisters. Czechoslovakia. Prague (Czech Republic) Oral histories (document genres) S., Nava. Schorsch, Gustav,--1918-1945. Gerron, Kurt,--1897-1944. Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) Hechalutz (Organization) International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
Special Collection: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

Link to Yale University Library Catalog:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4918855
Record last modified:: 2018-05-30 11:27:00
This page:: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4918855

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