Rosel B. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Rosel B., who was born in 1916 in Warsaw, Poland. Mrs. B. describes her family's move to Berlin; visits to her grandparents in Poland; attending a Jewish school; their highly cultured lifestyle; warnings about Hitler from 1928 onward; attending secretarial school; forced sale of the family business; her engagement in 1936; marriage in Berlin; emigration to Amsterdam; and the birth of her daughter. She recounts German invasion; betrayal by their housekeeper; receiving a notice for deportation; fleeing with her husband and daughter, via Brussels and Bordeaux, to Nice; bribing the French police to free her sister's husband; living safely in Italian-occupied southern France for a year; a close escape from the Gestapo in Grenoble; and living for a year in Switzerland. Mrs. B. discusses moving to Brussels after the war; seeking surviving family and learning most had perished; reclaiming property in Amsterdam and Berlin; her husband's nightmares; and her discomfort with Germans.
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
- B., Rosel, -- 1916-
Subjects
- Postwar effects.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Husband and wife.
- Refugees -- Jewish.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- Mother and child.
- Family.
- Hiding.
Places
- Berlin (Germany)
- Grenoble (France)
- Amsterdam (Netherlands)
- Antwerp (Belgium)
- Nice (France)
- Poland.
- Warsaw (Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat