Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Rella C., who was born in Cluj, Romania in 1927. She recalls antisemitic harassment at school; her religious, close family; Hungarian occupation; a brother's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; ghettoization with her uncle's family, her sister, and sister's fiancé; deportation to Auschwitz; staying with her sister and aunt's niece; slave labor; living in complete fear; cursing God; separation from her sister; having blood drawn; transfer with her aunt's niece to Bergen-Belsen; finding her sister; hospitalization; visits from her aunt's niece; her disappearance; observing cannibalism; liberation; a long hospitalization; her sister leaving for Sweden, then the United States; living in Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp; assistance from UNRRA; marriage in 1947; emigration to Belgium; her son's birth; and emigration with her son to join her sister in the United States in 1961 (her husband did not come). Ms. C. discusses fears and nightmares resulting from her experiences.
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale, 2005
- Interview Date
- June 10, 2005.
- Locale
- Romania
Cluj-Napoca
Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
Belgium - Cite As
- Rella C. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4334). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 3 copies: DVCam Master; Betacam SP submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 59 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Antisemitism Prewar.
Hungarian occupation.
Mutual aid.
Hospitals in concentration camps.
Postwar effects.
Postwar experiences. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Romania--Cluj-Napoca. Sisters. Forced labor. Concentration camps--Psychological aspects. Concentration camp inmates--Family relationships. Cannibalism. Refugee camps. Nightmares. Romania. Cluj-Napoca (Romania) Belgium. Oral histories (document genres) C., Rella,--1927- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen. United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/7113844
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-29 11:58:00
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt7113844
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