Rita A. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Rita A., who was born in Baca?u, Romania in 1931. She recalls her family's strong sense of Romanian identification; anti-Jewish laws in 1939 precluding her attendance at public school; attending a Jewish school; her family's privileged position due to her father's work for a Romanian officer; hiding during pogroms by local Romanian fascists; her father avoiding deportation due to the influence of the officer; liberation by Soviet troops; her brother escaping to Austria; traveling to Vienna with her parents; living in Rothschild Hospital, then Wegscheid and Salzburg displaced persons camps; training to go to Palestine with a Zionist organization; marriage to a Lithuanian survivor in Parsch displaced persons camp in 1948; and emigration to Israel, then to Canada in 1951. Mrs. A. discusses learning about concentration and death camps while in displaced persons camps and learning of her husband's experiences.
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
- A., Rita, -- 1931-
Subjects
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Zionists.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Postwar experiences.
- Refugee camps.
- Child survivors.
Places
- Parsch (Austria : Refugee camp)
- Salzburg (Austria : Refugee camp)
- Wegscheid (Austria : Refugee camp)
- Rothschild Hospital (Vienna, Austria : Refugee camp)
- BacaĚu (Romania)
- Israel.
- Romania.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat