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Sprinta T. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4314) interviewed by Jean-Marie De Becker and Bruno Della Pietra,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-4314

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Sprinta T., who was born in Rona de Sus, Romania in 1920. She recalls her large, Hasidic family; a happy childhood; attending school until age twelve; the family farm; her older brothers attending school elsewhere; Hungarian occupation in 1944; transfer with her family to a ghetto, then to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her parents (she never saw them again); slave labor building roads; transfer to Bergen-Belsen by train, then a death march; her cousin sharing food that she had found near the road; liberation by British troops; recuperating in Malmö, Sweden; assistance from the Red Cross; eighteen months later joining her brothers in Belgium; marriage; and the births of her children. Ms. T. discusses her overwhelming fear in the camps; nightmares resulting from her experiences; and not sharing her experiences with her siblings or her children.
Author/Creator: T., Sprinta, 1920-
Published: Brussels, Belgium : Fondation Auschwitz, 2003
Interview Date: March 10 and April 28, 2003.
Locale: Romania
Rona de Sus (Romania)
Malmö (Sweden)
Cite As: Sprinta T. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4314). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: De Becker, Jean-Marie, interviewer.
Della Pietra, Bruno, interviewer.
Notes: This testimony is in French.

Physical Details

Language: French
Copies: 2 copies: Betacam SP dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 2 videorecordings (1 hr., 22 min. and 1 hr., 28 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Hungarian occupation.
Postwar experiences.
Mutual aid.
Postwar effects.
Survivor-child relations.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Forced labor. Concentration camps--Psychological aspects. Death marches. Romania. Rona de Sus (Romania) Malmö (Sweden) Oral histories (document genres) T., Sprinta,--1920- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp) 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/6709499
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:26:00
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