LEADER 04863cpd a2200625 a 4500001 997002 005 20180604132915.0 008 910731s1989 ctu eng d 035 (OCoLC)ocn702254134 035 (CStRLIN)CTYV91-A171 035 997002 035 HVT-1267 035 |9AGB5764YL 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)702207827 090 |bHVT-1267 100 1 D., Betty, |d1927- 245 10 Betty D. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1267) |h[videorecording] / |cinterviewed by Susan Millen and Joanne Weiner Rudof, |fJuly 10, 1989. 260 New Haven, Conn. : |bFortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University, |c1989. 300 1 videorecording (1 hr., 45 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Betty D., who was born in Bodrogkeresztúr, Hungary in 1927. She recalls pleasant experiences in an observant home; attending Hungarian schools; friendships with non-Jews; disbelief in the horror stories of Polish refugees; unexpected change in 1944; anti-Jewish measures; transfer to the Sátoraljaújhely ghetto; deportation three weeks later to Auschwitz; separation from her father, mother and brother; efforts to always remain with her sister; work in the Canada Kommando; the emotional trauma of being beaten; her sister's efforts to protect her; and the public hanging of prisoners who had blown up a crematorium. Mrs. D. recounts evacuation to Bergen-Belsen; dreaming of her mother; transfer to Braunschweig to clean up bombing rubble, then to Bernsdorf to work in a salt mine; liberation from a train; transfer to Denmark, then Sweden for recovery; the kindness of the Swedish people; attending school; discovering her brother had survived and lived in Palestine; emigration to the United States in 1950; adjustment difficulties; marriage; and the birth of her children. She discusses ignorance of outside events while in the camps; wondering "where God was;" the loss of almost her entire family; regrets that she had not told her children of her experiences; and discovering her photograph in The Auschwitz Album. 500 Related publication: The Auschwitz album : a book based upon an album discovered by a concentration camp survivor, Lili Meier / text by Peter Hellman. -- 1st ed. -- New York : Random House, c1981. 562 |e3 copies: |b3/4 in. master; |b3/4 in. dub; |band 1/2 in. VHS with time coding. 524 Betty D. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1267). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 600 10 D., Betty, |d1927- 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 |zHungary |zSátoraljaújhely. 650 0 Sisters. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85123008 650 0 Sabotage. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85116210 650 0 Dreams. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85039483 651 0 Braunschweig (Germany) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50049852 651 0 Hungary. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79053090 651 0 Bodrogkeresztúr (Hungary) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88083044 610 20 Auschwitz (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96112360 610 20 Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96065702 651 0 Denmark. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021597 651 0 Sweden. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021184 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 690 4 Resistance. 690 4 Survivor-child relations. 690 4 Postwar experiences. 691 4 Sátoraljaújhely ghetto. 691 4 Bernsdorf (Czechoslovakia : Concentration camp) 693 24 Canada Kommando. 700 1 Millen, Susan, |einterviewer. 700 1 Rudof, Joanne Weiner, |einterviewer. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n99266034 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b1125344 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.1267) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/8k74t6f616 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/