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Marta R. Holocaust testimony (HVT-83) interviewed by Laurel Vlock,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-83

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Marta R., who was born in a small town in Moravia in 1921. Mrs. R. describes her happy childhood; her gradual awareness of antisemitism; the German occupation; her education and work as a teacher; her marriage; and her and her husband's deportation to Terezín in December, 1942. She tells of daily life in Terezín; her transport, with her husband, to Auschwitz, where they were immediately separated (she never saw him again); her transfer after two weeks to Birnbäumel, a labor camp in a small village; the death march to Gross Rosen, from where she was taken by train to Bergen-Belsen; and her liberation there. Postwar topics include her recovery in Sweden; work in a Jewish orphanage in Prague; emigration to Israel; and her continuing work with children.
Author/Creator: R., Marta, 1921-
Published: Tel Aviv, Israel : Holocaust Survivors Film Project, 1979
Interview Date: November 5, 1979.
Locale: Czechoslovakia
Moravia (Czech Republic)
Cite As: Marta R. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-83). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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Notes: Unpublished finding aid available in repository; 1/2 in.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 (1 hr., 15 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Husband Death.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Forced labor. Husband and wife. Czechoslovakia. Moravia (Czech Republic) Death marches. Oral histories (document genres) R., Marta,--1921- Birnbäumel (Concentration camp) Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Gross-Rosen (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/616909
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:25:00
This page:: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt616909

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