Celia R. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Celia R., who was born in Czechoslovakia in approximately 1921, one of ten children. She recounts her family's affluence; moving to Ti?a?chiv; participating in Mizrachi; Hungarian occupation; moving to work in her sister's store; moving the store to Ti?a?chiv; traveling to Budapest on business; German invasion; returning home; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; hospitalization; transfer to Reichenbach; slave labor in a factory; treatment by a Russian doctor; Allied bombings; a death march to Porta Westfalica; transfer four weeks later to Salzwedel; liberation by United States troops; taking food and clothing from homes in Salzwedel; hospitalization; returning home via Teplice Sanov; recovering buried family valuables; traveling to Budapest; returning home several times searching for her brother; learning he had died of starvation; traveling to Germany; living in Windsheim displaced persons camp; assistance from UNRRA; traveling illegally to Milan, then Cremona; living on a Mizrachi kibbutz; illegal emigration to Palestine aboard the Exodus; interdiction by the British; incarceration on Cyprus for more than a year; release after Israel's independence; living in Tel Aviv; reunion with a cousin; marriage; her son's birth; and emigration to the United States. Ms. R. notes her children's interest in her experiences. She shows photographs.
Extent and Medium
3 videocassettes
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
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- R., Celia, -- 1921?-
Corporate Bodies
- Mizrachi.
- Exodus 1947 (Ship)
- Porta Westfalica (Concentration camp)
- Salzwedel (Concentration camp)
- United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Hospitals in concentration camps.
- Hungarian occupation.
- Postwar experiences.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Ti︠a︡chiv -- Ukraine.
- Death marches.
- Refugee camps.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Salzwedel (Germany)
- Budapest (Hungary)
- Milan (Italy)
- Teplice (Czech Republic)
- Palestine -- Emigration and immigration.
- Cremona (Italy)
- Tel Aviv (Israel)
- Cyprus.
- Ti︠a︡chiv (Ukraine)
- Czechoslovakia.
- Windsheim (Germany : Refugee camp)
- Ti︠a︡chiv ghetto.
- Reichenbach (Poland : Concentration camp)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat