Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Erna S., who was born in 1923 in Simleul, near Timisoara, Romania and presently lives in Australia. She recalls her childhood, which was relatively trouble-free until 1937. She describes lining up with the rest of the town's Jews in 1944; their march to the ghetto; her transport to Auschwitz in 1944, where she was separated from her family, "adopted" by an older Jewish woman, and worked in the kitchen; her transfer, six weeks later, to Bergen-Belsen; and her experiences there. She relates her forced labor in Beendorf and Braunschweig; liberation; her post-war journey to Denmark; her arrival in Sweden; and her emigration to Australia. Mrs. S. also tells of not wanting to speak of the Holocaust with her children.
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale, 1984
- Interview Date
- December 16, 1984.
- Locale
- Romania
Șimleu Silvaniei (Romania)
Braunschweig (Germany)
Denmark
Sweden
Australia - Cite As
- Erna S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-510). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 3 copies: 3/4 in. master; 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 16 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Survivor-child relations.
Mutual aid. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Husband and wife. Jewish ghettos. Forced labor. Concentration camps--Sociological aspects. Romania. Șimleu Silvaniei (Romania) Braunschweig (Germany) Denmark. Sweden. Australia. Oral histories (document genres) S., Erna,--1923- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) Beendorf (Concentration camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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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/963058
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:27:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt963058
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