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