Regina N. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Regina N., who was born in Myszyniec, Poland in 1920. She recounts her father's death when she was a baby; antisemitic violence; participating in Zionist youth groups; child care work in Warsaw, then P?ock; German invasion; her mother's death from cancer; ghettoization; hiding during round-ups; deportation to Dzia?dowo; escaping upon arrival; traveling to Starachowice; ghettoization; marriage; transfer to Starachowice camp; slave labor in a munitions factory; pregnancy and childbirth (the child was taken after three days); a failed escape attempt by the camp resistance; transfer to Birkenau; public hanging of an escapee; encountering her husband; a death march in January 1945, then train transport to Bergen-Belsen; sharing extra food; liberation by British troops; living in Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp; reunion with her husband; moving to Regensburg; living in Brussels; her son's birth; emigrating to Israel; moving to the United States in 1957; and her daughter's birth. Ms. N. shows photographs.
Extent and Medium
5 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.
Rules and Conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- N., Regina, -- 1920-
Corporate Bodies
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- Starachowice (Concentration camp)
- DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen.
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Death marches.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Zionist organizations.
- Hiding.
- Marriage in Jewish ghettos.
- Mutual aid.
- Concentration camps -- Underground movements.
- Childbirth in concentration camps.
- Postwar experiences.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Husband and wife.
- Escapes.
- Refugee camps.
- Forced labor.
- Jews -- Poland -- Starachowice.
- Jews -- Poland -- Płock.
- Jewish ghettos.
Places
- Poland.
- Myszyniec (Poland)
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Brussels (Belgium)
- Płock (Poland)
- Israel.
- Płock ghetto.
- Starachowice ghetto.
- Regensburg (Germany : Refugee camp)
- Soldau-Działdowo (Poland : Concentration camp)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat