Helen N. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 2568
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Helen N., who was born in Rona de Sus, Romania in 1921, one of eleven children. She recalls her family's traditional religious life; working in Sa?pi?nt?a as a dressmaker; violent Hungarian soldiers; food shortages; declining an offer to be hidden by friends; ghettoization with her parents, one sister, and brother in Oradea; their deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her parents (she never saw them again); efforts to remain with her sister; her brother's instructions to eat non-kosher food in order to survive (she never saw him again); being beaten for having a needle and thread; sharing food with her sister; deterioration of health; transfer to a munitions factory; improvement in the food; liberation by United States troops; transfer to Bergen-Belsen refugee camp; searching for other sisters in Landsberg refugee camp; traveling with her future husband to Strasbourg and Paris; marriage in Belgium; and emigration to the United States in 1949.

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., Helen, -- 1921-

Corporate Bodies

  • DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen.
  • Landsberg am Lech (Displaced persons camp)
  • Auschwitz (Concentration camp)

Subjects

  • Mutual aid.
  • Aid by non-Jews.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Forced labor.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • Jews -- Romania -- Oradea.
  • Hungarian occupation.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Sisters.
  • Brothers and sisters.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Video tapes.
  • Women.

Places

  • Oradea ghetto.
  • Paris (France)
  • Rona de Sus (Romania)
  • Romania.
  • Strasbourg (France)
  • Săpînța (Romania)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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