Rachel N. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 2010
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Rachel N., who was born in Tomaso?w Mazowiecki, Poland in 1914. She recalls anti-Jewish quotas preventing her from attending university in Warsaw; studying nursing in ?o?dz?; working for the district doctor in Brzeziny; German invasion; being forced to establish a separate Jewish hospital; ghettoization; marriage; public hangings of food smugglers; her husband's round-up (she never saw him again); clandestinely visiting her parents and sister in Tomasz?ow Mazowiecki; persuading a German soldier not to kill her father; returning to Brzeziny (she never saw her family again); transfer to the ?o?dz? ghetto; working in the hospital; collecting children on H?ayim Rumkowski's orders; privileged access to food as a nurse; treating Rumkowski's wife; living with her three sisters-in-law; deportation to Auschwitz; transfer to Stutthof; forced labor; sharing food with her sister-in-law; a brutal beating for helping other prisoners; being nursed by prisoners; a death march; boat transport to Neustadt in Holstein; execution of immobile prisoners by the Germans; liberation by British troops; working as a nurse for UNRRA; transfer to Lu?ebeck; working for the Joint in Hamburg caring for orphans; emigration to the United States in 1949; and marriage to a survivor from Krako?w.

Extent and Medium

2 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., Rachel, -- 1914-

Corporate Bodies

  • United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
  • American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
  • Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
  • Stutthof (Concentration camp)

Subjects

  • Jews -- Poland -- Brzeziny (Łódź)
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • Women.
  • Video tapes.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Hospitals in Jewish ghettos.
  • Antisemitism -- Prewar.
  • Husband -- Death.
  • Death marches.
  • Concentration camp inmates -- Family relationships.
  • Forced labor.
  • Jews -- Poland -- Łódź.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
  • Mutual aid.
  • Postwar experiences.

Places

  • Brzeziny (Łódź, Poland)
  • Neustadt in Holstein (Germany)
  • Poland.
  • Łódź (Poland)
  • Tomaszów Mazowiecki (Poland)
  • Brzeziny ghetto.
  • Łódź ghetto.
  • Lübeck (Germany)
  • Hamburg (Germany)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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