Regina H. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Regina H., who was born in Be?dzin, Poland in approximately 1926, the youngest of six children in an affluent family. She recalls speaking Yiddish at home, attending a Jewish girls' school taught in Polish; learning Hebrew at Beit Yacov; fleeing with her family to Olkusz during the German invasion; returning home; hiding during a round-up with assistance from their non-Jewish janitor; forced relocation; living with a Polish woman who helped them a great deal; separation from her family when she was deported to Sosnowiec, then Gru?nberg; slave labor in a textile factory; civilian workers leaving her food; sharing it with other prisoners; receiving letters and packages from home for a brief period; arrival of a cousin; trading with civilians for extra food with her cousin's help; a death march to Christianstadt in winter 1945; escaping with a friend; posing as non-Jews to seek food and shelter from locals; liberation by Soviet troops; traveling to ?o?dz? via Wroc?aw; connecting with Jews; returning home in February; finding her sister's friend, but no relatives; meeting her future husband; joining a group for emigration to Israel; traveling to Budapest, Bucharest, then Italy; her daughter's birth in 1946; and emigration to Israel in 1948.
Extent and Medium
4 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.
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Process Info
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People
- H., Regina, -- 1926?-
Corporate Bodies
- Christianstadt (Concentration camp)
- Sosnowiec (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- Escapes.
- Child survivors.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Mutual aid.
- Jews -- Poland -- Będzin.
- Forced labor.
- Concentration camp inmates -- Family relationships.
- Death marches.
- Postwar experiences.
Places
- Grünberg (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Będzin ghetto.
- Italy.
- Bucharest (Romania)
- Olkusz (Poland)
- Wrocław (Poland)
- Łódź (Poland)
- Budapest (Hungary)
- Poland.
- Będzin (Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat