Rosita K. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Rosita K., who was born in Cluj, Romania. She speaks of the ghetto of Cluj, where she lived for four weeks; her deportation to Auschwitz; daily life in Auschwitz; her work as a slave laborer; the kindness shown her by a Wehrmacht soldier; her transfer to Bergen-Belsen where she was liberated by the British; her postwar stay in Sweden before emigrating to the United States; and the lasting detrimental effects of her wartime experiences.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette (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
- K., Rosita.
Corporate Bodies
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Aid by non-Jews.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Forced labor.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Romania -- Cluj-Napoca.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
Places
- Sweden.
- Cluj ghetto.
- Romania.
- Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- ftamc