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Joan B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-82) interviewed by Laurel Vlock,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-82

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Joan B., who was born in Mainz, Germany. She describes the growth of antisemitism in Nazi Germany; Kristallnacht, which resulted in the deaths of her father and mother; and her experiences as a slave laborer in Theresienstadt, where her first husband and entire immediate family perished. She also describes Auschwitz; various slave labor camps in Germany; and Bergen-Belsen, from which she was liberated. Other topics include the ways in which she attempted to undermine the German war effort while in concentration and labor camps; her postwar life in Belsen, where she worked as an interpreter, first for the British, then for the American Joint Distribution Committee; and her emigration to the United States in 1946.
Author/Creator: B., Joan, 1919-
Published: Palm Beach, Fla. : Holocaust Survivors Film Project, 1980
Interview Date: March 5, 1980.
Locale: Germany
Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)
Cite As: Joan B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-82). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University.
Other Authors/Editors: Vlock, Laurel, interviewer.
Notes: Unpublished finding aid available in repository; 1/2 in. VHS is linked to finding aid by time coding.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 3 copies: 3/4 in. master; 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (1hr., 2 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Crystal Night, 1938.
Husband Death.
Subjects: Video tapes. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Oral histories (document genres) Kristallnacht, 1938. Forced labor. Passive resistance. Holocaust survivors. Germany. Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany) B., Joan,--1919- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)

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/616220
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:25:00
This page:: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt616220

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