Chana B. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 0092
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Chana B., who was born in Chop, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine), in 1931. She tells how her family and other Jews were affected by the Hungarian occupation in 1938 and, using the Jewish holidays to define her chronology, she vividly recalls her experiences of the German occupation. She also recalls her deportation, with her family to the Uz?h?horod (Ungva?r) ghetto, where she was separated from her father, and her deportation to Auschwitz, where she was separated from her mother but managed to be "adopted" by a cousin, the first of many older women who cared for her during the war. She also describes her experiences in the children's block in Auschwitz; in a children's transport from Auschwitz to Horneburg, where she worked making light bulbs for submarines; being marched or transported from place to place as the war drew to a close; and her liberation at Salzwedel.

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. This testimony cannot be used for commercial or fund raising purposes.

Rules and Conventions

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Process Info

  • compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

People

  • B., Chana, -- 1931-

Corporate Bodies

  • Auschwitz (Concentration camp)

Subjects

  • Mutual aid.
  • Child survivors.
  • Women.
  • Video tapes.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • Jews -- Ukraine -- Uz︠h︡horod
  • Jews -- Ukraine -- Uz︠h︡horod.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
  • Concentration camps -- Sociological aspects.

Places

  • Chop (Ukraine)
  • Hungary.
  • Horneburg (Germany)
  • Salzwedel (Germany)
  • Czechoslovakia.
  • Children's block (Auschwitz)
  • Ungvár ghetto.
  • Horneburg (Germany : Concentration camp)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- ftamc
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