Minna B. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Minna B., who was born in Zawalo?w, Poland in 1914. She recounts marriage in 1933; her son's birth; German invasion; deportation of her husband; ghettoization with her son and mother in Podhajce; hiding with her son during "aktions"; the Judenrat and Jewish police rounding-up people for forced labor; being forced to cover a mass grave of murdered Jews; fleeing to the woods during an "aktion" (she never saw her son and mother again); encountering her neighbor, Oscar F.; hiding in bunkers with Oscar F. and other Jews; receiving food and encouragment from Jehovah's Witnesses; reunion with her husband after liberation; traveling with him to Poland; living in the Bad Reichenhall displaced persons camp; and their emigration to Canada, then the United States. Mrs. B. discusses the importance of her religious faith.
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.
Rules and Conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- B., Minna, -- 1914-
Corporate Bodies
- Bad Reichenhall (Displaced persons camp)
Subjects
- Mass killings.
- Bunkers.
- Refugee camps.
- Hiding.
- Postwar experiences.
- Forests.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- Jewish ghettos.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Faith.
- Jew -- Ukraine -- Pidhaīt︠s︡i.
- Children -- Death.
- Jehovah's Witnesses.
- Jewish councils.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
Places
- Podhajce ghetto.
- Poland.
- Zawalów (Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat