Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Helen E., who was born in Sosnowiec, Poland in 1925, one of three children. She recounts attending a Jewish public school; participating in Gordonyah; her father's death; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; working as a tutor; a notice to report for forced labor in January 1942; hiding with an aunt, then a non-Jewish neighbor; arrest; transport to Neusalz; slave labor in a factory; a six week death march in January 1945; briefly escaping with two fellow prisoners in Karlovy Vary; train transport to Flossenbürg, then a week later to Bergen-Belsen; starvation, lice, and corpses everywhere; becoming immune to dead bodies; losing hope; liberation in April; living in Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp; moving to Feldafing; learning her sister had not survived; returning to Bergen-Belsen; assistance from the Joint; attending high school, then a dental technician course; attending movies in Bremen; emigration to the United States in 1949; assistance from HIAS; marriage in 1950; and the births of her children. Ms. E. discusses continuing pain resulting from not saying good-bye to her mother and a post card from her sister which she still has, but cannot look at.
- Published
- Evanston, Ill. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 2003
- Interview Date
- November 6, 2003.
- Locale
- Poland
Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie, Poland)
Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic)
Bremen (Germany) - Cite As
- Helen E. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4265). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 3 copies: DVCam master; Betacam SP dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 38 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Hiding.
Aid by non-Jews.
Child survivors.
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. Forced labor. Concentration camps--Psychological aspects. Death marches. Escapes. Refugee camps. Poland. Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie, Poland) Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic) Bremen (Germany) Oral histories (document genres) E., Helen,--1925- Flossenbürg (Concentration camp) Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) Neusalz (Concentration camp) DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen. Feldafing (Displaced persons camp) American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. HIAS (Agency) Gordonyah--Makabi ha-tsaʻir (Association)
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/6467649
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-30 11:33:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt6467649
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