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Fran L. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4395) interviewed by Joanne Weiner Rudof ,

Oral History | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-4395

Videotape testimony of Fran L., who was born in Chrzanów, Poland in 1924. In addition to information in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-675), Ms. L. recalls receiving food from her family's former maid who was a Polish civilian worker at Neusalz; transfer from Gross-Rosen to Flossenbürg, then Bergen-Belsen; meeting her husband through his uncle, an official at the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp; friendship with Hadassah and Joseph Rosensaft; and living in Celle after she was married. She discusses her continuing belief in God and commitment to orthodoxy; traveling to Poland with her children fifteen years ago; and plans for a similar trip with her grandchildren soon. She shows photographs and documents.

Author/Creator: L., Fran, 1924-
Published: New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 2007
Interview Date: May 2, 2007.
Locale: Poland
Chrzanów
Chrzanów (Poland)
Kraków (Poland)
Celle (Germany)
Language: English
Copies: 3 copies: DVCam master; Betacam SP submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Cite As: Fran L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4395). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Physical Description: 1 videorecording (2 hr., 14 min.) : col
Other Authors/Editors: Rudof, Joanne Weiner, interviewer.
Notes: Additional documents are available in the repository,

Related material: Fran L. Holocaust testimony (HVT-675), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Special Collection: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
Subjects (Local Yale): Child survivors.
Hiding.
Mutual aid.
Aid by non-Jews.
Postwar experiences.
Survivor-child relations.
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.
Jewish ghettos.
Jews--Poland--Chrzanów.
Forced labor.
Death marches.
Refugee camps.
Faith.
Poland.
Chrzanów (Poland)
Kraków (Poland)
Celle (Germany)
Oral histories (document genres)
L., Fran,--1924-
Rosensaft, Hadassah,--1912-1997.
Rosensaft, Josef,--1911-1975.
Neusalz (Concentration camp)
Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp)
Flossenbürg (Concentration camp)
Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen.
Sosnowiec (Concentration camp)
Holder of Originals: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
: View in Yale University Library Catalog: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/7868581
Record last modified: 2018-06-04 13:29:00
This page: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt7868581

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