LEADER 04544cpd a2200601 a 4500001 967657 005 20180530114530.0 008 910123s1984 ctu eng d 035 (OCoLC)ocn702253485 035 (CStRLIN)CTYV91-A4 035 967657 035 HVT-306 035 |9AFW1301YL 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)702206909 090 |bHVT-306 100 1 B., Bella, |d1920- 245 10 Bella B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-306) |h[videorecording] / |cinterviewed by Pam Goodman and Batik Waller, |fNovember 5, 1984. 260 New York, N.Y. : |bFortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |c1984. 300 1 videorecording (1 hr., 25 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Bella B., who was born in Piotrków, Poland in 1920. Mrs. B. describes her family; the German invasion; isolation and persecution of the Jews; and the formation of the ghetto, which she escaped from with family members by hiding in a bunker. She recalls the birth of her sister's baby in the bunker; returning to the ghetto; separation from her brother whom she never saw again; her brother-in-law's efforts to keep the newly born child hidden; learning about the mass shooting of all the young men in a nearby woods; and deportation to Skarżysko-Kamienna. Mrs. S. recounts conditions in Skarżysko; the many beatings and the loss of dignity; receiving advice from the rabbi of her hometown in Skarżysko; transfer with 3,000 women to Leipzig; kindness shown to her by a German worker; constant hunger; the three week death march; and liberation by Russians. She tells of her return to Poland to seek family; narrowly escaping rape by Polish and Russian men; extreme antisemitism in Poland; learning her sister was alive in Bergen-Belsen; and smuggling herself into Germany. She recalls her reunion with her sister; meeting her husband who was a rabbi and scholar; the birth of two of her children; emigration to the United States; the death of her husband; her remarriage; and her reluctance to discuss her experience with her children. 562 |e3 copies: |b3/4 in. master; |b3/4 in. dub; |band 1/2 in. VHS with time coding. 524 Bella B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-306). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 600 10 B., Bella, |d1920- 610 20 DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2012131298 650 0 Holocaust survivors. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061527 650 0 Video tapes. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143214 650 0 Women. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85147274 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |vPersonal narratives. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061518 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |vPersonal narratives, Jewish. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148465 650 0 Jewish ghettos. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95007077 650 0 Jews |zPoland |zPiotrków Trybunalski. 650 0 Forced labor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xAtrocities. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148285 651 0 Poland. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79131071 651 0 Piotrków Trybunalski (Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80015362 610 20 Skarżysko-Kamienna (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no97030355 651 0 Leipzig (Germany) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79125883 651 0 Berlin (Germany) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79034972 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 690 4 Childbirth in Jewish ghettos. 690 4 Hiding. 690 4 Bunkers. 650 0 Jewish councils. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85070271 690 4 Mass killings. 690 4 Aid by non-Jews. 650 0 Death marches. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95006384 691 4 Piotrków ghetto. 700 1 Waller, Batik, |einterviewer. 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b1095436 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.0306) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/w37kp7v195 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/