Bronia K. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Bronia K., who was born in Grodno, Poland (presently Hrodna, Belarus) in 1923. She describes her childhood; a pogrom which took place in Grodno in 1936; her involvement in a Zionist socialist youth organization, which led to her becoming active in the Resistance; the ghettoization of Grodno; her life in the Grodno ghetto; her resistance activities in the Bia?ystok ghetto and on the Aryan side with false papers; and her return to Grodno after liberation to find that her entire family had been killed. Mrs. K.'s resistance activities included smuggling arms; acting as a courier between ghettos; and finding a hiding place for the archives of the Bia?ystok ghetto which had been collected by Mordecai Tenenbaum and which included oral histories of survivors of liquidated ghettos.
Extent and Medium
3 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)
Conditions Governing Access
This testimony is open with permission.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.
Rules and Conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- Tenenbaum, Mordecai, -- 1916-1943.
- K., Bronia, -- 1923-
Subjects
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Belarus -- Hrodna.
- Pogroms.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Belarus.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance.
- Youth movements.
- Zionist organizations.
- Partisans.
- False papers.
Places
- BiaĹystok (Poland)
- Grodno ghetto.
- Poland.
- Hrodna (Belarus)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat