Bronia R. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 2462
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Bronia R., who was born in Turek, Poland in 1926. She recounts German invasion; remaining home with her mother when her family unsuccessfully tried to escape to Russia; being forced to watch a public hanging; ghettoization; transfer to Inowrac?aw in 1940 in her sister's place; slave labor digging canals; deportation to Auschwitz in 1943; jumping off a truck on the way to the gas chambers and returning to a barrack; working for Telefunken in Langenbielau; transfer on open train cars via Bergen-Belsen and Mauthausen to Salzwedel; and liberation by United States troops in April 1945. Mrs. R. describes traveling with the United States Army to Braunschweig; studying nursing and English in Heidelberg; working as a nurse in the Lampertheim displaced persons camp; marriage in 1947; and emigration to the United States. She notes that she believed throughout her experience that God would save her.

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

  • R., Bronia, -- 1926-

Corporate Bodies

  • Lampertheim (Displaced persons camp)
  • Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
  • Langenbielau (Concentration camp)
  • Salzwedel (Concentration camp)

Subjects

  • Forced labor.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • Women.
  • Video tapes.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Child survivors.
  • Refugee camps.
  • Death marches.
  • Jews -- Poland -- Turek.
  • Faith.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.

Places

  • Inowracław (Poland : Concentration camp)
  • Heidelberg (Germany)
  • Turek ghetto.
  • Turek (Poland)
  • Braunschweig (Germany)
  • Poland.

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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