Joan B. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Joan B., who was born in Mainz, Germany. She describes the growth of antisemitism in Nazi Germany; Kristallnacht, which resulted in the deaths of her father and mother; and her experiences as a slave laborer in Theresienstadt, where her first husband and entire immediate family perished. She also describes Auschwitz; various slave labor camps in Germany; and Bergen-Belsen, from which she was liberated. Other topics include the ways in which she attempted to undermine the German war effort while in concentration and labor camps; her postwar life in Belsen, where she worked as an interpreter, first for the British, then for the American Joint Distribution Committee; and her emigration to the United States in 1946.
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
- B., Joan, -- 1919-
Corporate Bodies
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
- Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Video tapes.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- Crystal Night, 1938.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Passive resistance.
- Forced labor.
- Husband -- Death.
Places
- Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)
- Germany.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- ftamc