Adele W. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 1193
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Adele W., who was born in Be?dzin, Poland in 1922, the oldest of eight children. In addition to information included in a subsequently recorded testimony (HVT-2558), Ms. H. recalls transfer from Malchow to Taucha; traveling after the war, including to Budapest and Cremona after the war; her uncle organizing a ship for their illegal emigration to Palestine in 1946; and sharing her story with her family. She shows photographs.

Extent and Medium

2 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.

Related Units of Description

  • Related material: Adele W. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2558), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Rules and Conventions

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Process Info

  • compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

People

  • W., Adele, -- 1922-

Corporate Bodies

  • Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
  • Malchow (Concentration camp)
  • Auschwitz (Concentration camp)

Subjects

  • Mutual aid.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Video tapes.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • Women.
  • Death marches.
  • Concentration camp inmates -- Family relationships.
  • Hiding.
  • Bunkers.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Forced labor.
  • Jews -- Poland -- Będzin.

Places

  • Będzin (Poland)
  • Budapest (Hungary)
  • Cremona (Italy)
  • Bacoli (Italy)
  • Poland.
  • Palestine -- Emigration and immigration.
  • Będzin ghetto.
  • Taucha (Saxony, Germany : Concentration camp)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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