Lorna B. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Lorna B., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1921. This testimony includes all of the information in an earlier interview. Additional topics discussed include her beautiful childhood; her family's prewar life; relations with their non-Jewish neighbors; ghettoization; her father's severe beating by Germans resulting in insanity; his death from a lethal injection; becoming the head of her family; her younger brother's arrest and deportation; killings, starvation and deportations; writing a letter to H?ayim Rumkowski asking for help; obtaining a job; deportation with her older brother to Auschwitz; beatings, selections and appells; transfer to Bergen-Belsen, then Salzwedel; working in a factory; receiving better treatment because of her knitting for the SS women; sabotaging production; and seeking relatives after the war. Mrs. B. discusses the importance of friendship in the camps and the effects of her experiences (she still hears the screams of parents and children being separated during deportations from the ghetto).
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
- Rumkowski, Mordecai Ḥayim.
- B., Lorna, -- 1921-
Corporate Bodies
- Salzwedel (Concentration camp)
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Postwar effects.
- Passive resistance.
- Mutual aid.
- Forced labor.
- Sabotage.
- Family.
- Friendship.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Poland -- Łódź.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Łódź ghetto.
- Łódź (Poland)
- Poland.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat