Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Rosa W., who was born in Radom, Poland in 1926, the oldest of three children. She recalls her close extended family; attending Polish public school in Kielce; German invasion; ghettoization; deportation to Majdanek; transfer to Płaszów; slave labor with her mother in the Wieliczka salt mines; transfer back to Płaszów; her father's and brother's deportation (she never saw her father again); transfer with her mother and other relatives to Auschwitz/Birkenau; a cousin being taken for specious medical experiments; a death march and train transport to Bergen-Belsen; encouraging her mother to go on when she wanted to stop during the death march; her death six days prior to liberation by British troops; living in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp; depression upon learning a man whom she thought was her father was not; learning her brother was alive; marriage in 1946; reunion with her brother; emigration to the United States in 1950; and moving to Canada. Ms. W. notes sharing her experiences with her children, and a recent trip to Poland with them.
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 2007
- Interview Date
- June 11, 2007.
- Locale
- Poland
Radom (Województwo Mazowieckie)
Radom (Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland)
Kielce (Poland) - Cite As
- Rosa W. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4397). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
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Additional written material is available in the repository.
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., 41 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Child survivors.
Survivor-child relations.
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. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Radom (Województwo Mazowieckie) Mothers and daughters. Fathers and daughters. Concentration camp inmates--Family relationships. Death marches. Refugee camps. Poland. Radom (Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland) Kielce (Poland) Oral histories (document genres) W., Rosa,--1926- Majdanek (Concentration camp) Płaszów (Concentration camp) Wieliczka (Concentration camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp) Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen.
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/8107108
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-29 11:58:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt8107108
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