Rose K. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Rose K., who lived in Be?chato?w, Poland, one of three sisters. She recounts her father's death when she was very young; working for her sister as a dressmaker; German invasion; fleeing to ?o?dz?; returning to find their home had been robbed; her non-Jewish landlord assisting her after a severe beating by a German soldier; forced labor; a public hanging; transfer to ?o?dz? ghetto with her mother, sisters, and her sister's children; slave labor in a textile factory; assistance from cousins with whom she is still close; after two years, deportation to Auschwitz with a sister and nieces, then to Sasel a week later; slave labor clearing bombing rubble in Hamburg; one niece's death; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; liberation by British troops; three months hospitalization in Bergen; transfer to Sweden; emigration to the United States; and marriage in 1953. Ms. K. discusses her close relationship with her surviving niece and her husband.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- K., Rose.
Corporate Bodies
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Sasel (Concentration camp)
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Mutual aid.
- Concentration camp inmates -- Family relationships.
- Postwar experiences.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Forced labor.
- Family.
- Sisters.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Jews -- Poland -- Łódź.
- Jewish ghettos.
Places
- Sweden.
- Łódź ghetto.
- Bełchatów (Poland)
- Bergen (Celle, Germany)
- Hamburg (Germany)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat