Bella C. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Bella C., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1922. She describes her family's prewar life; German occupation; serious injuries from being beaten by a German while trying to protect her mother; fleeing with her father and her younger sister to Bia?ystok to obtain medical attention (she lost an eye); meeting her future husband; traveling with her father and future husband to Omsk; marriage; birth of her daughter; working as a waitress; her husband's return to Omsk after a year of service in the Soviet army; returning to Poland; learning her mother and sisters had been killed in Treblinka; living in a kibbutz in Wroc?aw and having to place her daughter in an orphanage; smuggling through the border to Bratislava; traveling from Austria to a displaced persons camp in Ainring; transfer to Lechfeld; and emigrating with her husband and daughter to the United States. Mrs. C. describes hardships in the Soviet Union and her adjustment to life in the United States.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (betacam sp)
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
- C., Bella, -- 1922-
Subjects
- Husband and wife.
- Mother and daughter.
- Postwar experiences.
- Refugee camps.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Refugees, Jewish.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- Postwar effects.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Lechfeld (Germany : Refugee camp)
- Omsk (Russia)
- BiaĹystok (Poland)
- Ainring (Germany : Refugee camp)
- WrocĹaw (Poland)
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Poland.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat