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Bronia K. Holocaust testimony (HVT-76) interviewed by Laurel Vlock,

Oral History | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-76

Videotape testimony of Bronia K., who was born in Grodno, Poland (presently Hrodna, Belarus) in 1923. She describes her childhood; a pogrom which took place in Grodno in 1936; her involvement in a Zionist socialist youth organization, which led to her becoming active in the Resistance; the ghettoization of Grodno; her life in the Grodno ghetto; her resistance activities in the Białystok ghetto and on the Aryan side with false papers; and her return to Grodno after liberation to find that her entire family had been killed. Mrs. K.'s resistance activities included smuggling arms; acting as a courier between ghettos; and finding a hiding place for the archives of the Białystok ghetto which had been collected by Mordecai Tenenbaum and which included oral histories of survivors of liquidated ghettos.

Author/Creator
K., Bronia, 1923-
Published
Jerusalem, Israel : Holocaust Survivors Film Project, 1979
Interview Date
April 11, 1979.
Locale
Poland
Belarus
Hrodna
Hrodna (Belarus)
Białystok (Poland)
Language
English
Copies
3 copies: 3/4in. master; 3/4in. dub; and 1/2in. VHS with time coding.
Cite As
Bronia K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-76). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
 
View in Yale University Library Catalog: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/616783
Record last modified: 2018-06-04 13:28:00
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