Helen L. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 2853
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Helen L., who was born in Radom, Poland in 1926, the youngest of seven children. She recalls anti-Semitic incidents; German occupation; working in a labor camp in Radom; transfer with her brother to Bliz?yn; working as a seamstress; her brother's deportation to Mauthausen; her transfer to Birkenau; selections, beatings, and appells; working in an ammunition factory in Kratzau; liberation by Soviet troops; returning to Radom; joining a kibbutz when she didn't find any surviving family members; reunion with her brother in the Landsberg displaced persons camp; attending an ORT school; marriage in 1947; and emigration with her husband to the United States in 1949. Mrs. L. notes her reluctance to discuss her experiences with her children; her brother's influence on her life; the importance of luck to her survival; and she describes her wedding in Landsberg.

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

  • L., Helen, -- 1926-

Corporate Bodies

  • Birkenau (Concentration camp)
  • Bliżyn (Concentration camp)
  • Kratzau I (Concentration camp)
  • Landsberg am Lech (Displaced persons camp)
  • World ORT Union.

Subjects

  • Women.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Video tapes.
  • Forced labor.
  • Brothers and sisters.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
  • Survivor-child relations.
  • Child survivors.
  • Refugee camps.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Antisemitism -- Prewar.

Places

  • Radom (Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland)
  • Poland.
  • (Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland : Concentration camp)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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