Regina W. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Regina W., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1903, one of three sisters. She recounts her father's death in 1904; her family's poverty; working for her aunt; marriage to a shoemaker; the deaths of one sister and her mother; German invasion; fleeing to Soviet-occupied Grodno; deportation to Kazakhstan; her husband's forced labor cutting trees, then in a brick factory; his transfer to Arkhangel?sk; sending him food, then joining him; deportation to Siberia; her husband's work in a coal mine; their repatriation to ?o?dz? in 1945; traveling to Germany; reunion with a nephew; working for the Red Cross; emigration to the United States; and her husband's death. Ms. W. discusses the loss of her entire family, except for one nephew, and her depression and loneliness.
Extent and Medium
2 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
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- W., Regina, -- 1903-
Corporate Bodies
- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
Subjects
- Husband and wife.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Postwar experiences.
- Soviet occupation.
- Mutual aid.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Soviet.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor -- Soviet Union.
Places
- Russia.
- Łódź (Poland)
- Grodno (Belarus)
- Siberia (Russia)
- Hrodna (Belarus)
- Arkhangelʹsk (Russia)
- Kazakhstan.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat