Skip to main content

Sara B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1108) interviewed by Dana L. Kline,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1108

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Sara B., who was born in Brest-Litovsk, Russia. Mrs. B., one of nine children, tells of her youth; her observant and locally prominent parents; the sympathy of young people for communism; her studies at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1930; marriage; and the birth of her daughter in 1933 and son in 1939. She recalls her husband's internment as a foreign Jew at Beaune-la-Rolande in May 1941; smuggling false papers to him; his escape in 1942 with a fellow prisoner to Sancerre in Vichy France; her own flight with their children from Paris to Sancerre; her husband's activity as a document forger for the Resistance; his escape before a police raid; and placing her children in a convent in order to care for him after a serious operation. She discusses her role in the rescue of three children from Drancy; Allied liberation of Sancerre; reunion with her children; emigration to the United States in 1949; her husband's death in 1953; and the increased willingness of people in recent years to discuss the Holocaust.
Author/Creator: B., Sara.
Published: New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1988
Interview Date: August 24, 1988.
Locale: France
Belarus
Brest (Belarus)
Minsk (Belarus)
Paris (France)
Sancerre (France)
Cite As: Sara B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1108). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Kline, Dana L., interviewer.

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., 54 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Aid by non-Jews.
False papers.
Hiding.
Resistance.
Mutual aid.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Convents. Husband and wife. Mother and child. World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--France. Belarus. Brest (Belarus) Minsk (Belarus) Paris (France) Sancerre (France) Oral histories (document genres) Escapes. B., Sara. Beaune-la-Rolande (Concentration camp)

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: 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/972029
Record last modified:: 2018-05-29 11:47:00
This page:: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt972029

Additional Resources

Librarian View

Download & Licensing

Terms of Use
This record is digitized but cannot be downloaded online.

In-Person Research

Request Access from Yale University Libraries

Requires Yale University Libraries Permission
Accessing Fortunoff interviews
Log in to Request and View
About the Fortunoff Archive

Once requests are approved, you must be at a Fortunoff Access Site to view the testimony.

Contact Us

Give Feedback

Learn About the Holocaust

These additional online resources from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum will help you learn more about the Holocaust and research your family history.

Holocaust Encyclopedia

The Holocaust Encyclopedia provides an overview of the Holocaust using text, photographs, maps, artifacts, and personal histories.
Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center

Research family history relating to the Holocaust and explore the Museum's collections about individual survivors and victims of the Holocaust and Nazi persecution.
Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos

Learn about over 1,000 camps and ghettos in Volumes I-III of this encyclopedia, which are available as a free PDF download. This reference provides text, photographs, charts, maps, and extensive indexes.

Further Your Research