Reva F. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Reva F., who was born in Iwye, Poland (presently Iu?e, Belarus) in 1937. She vaguely recalls German occupation; seeing dead bodies; Germans beating people; escaping with her mother; being hidden alone with a man in a nearby village; her mother coming for her; hiding with her mother in the attic of a non-Jewish woman who shared her food with them; hiding in a forest with her aunt and cousin; the war's end; returning to Iwye; her mother's remarriage; traveling to a displaced persons camp in Ladispoli, Italy; her sister's birth; and emigrating to the United States to join an aunt. Mrs. F. discusses not remembering most of her childhood; present fears resulting from her war experiences; feeling her past began when she arrived in the U.S.; and her father's death in a mass shooting. She shows photographs.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette
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
- F., Reva, -- 1937-
Subjects
- Refugee camps.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Hiding.
- Child survivors.
- Postwar effects.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Postwar experiences.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
Places
- Poland.
- IuĚe (Belarus)
- Iwye (Poland)
- Ladispoli (Italy)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat