Regina F. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Regina F., who was born in Be?dzin, Poland in 1931. She recounts German invasion; anti-Jewish regulations; ghettoization; her mother leaving to have a baby and not returning; hiding during a round-up; being found; selection into a group of children, sick, and elderly; running to the group with her father and brothers; making it to the group next to theirs; deportation to Klettendorf; slave labor; crying for her mother; stopping when she realized she was on her own; starvation; transfer to Ludwigsdorf; slave labor in a munitions factory; older prisoners caring for her and two other youngsters; a German guard providing extra food and rest; liberation by Soviet troops; living in Feldafing displaced persons camp, then with cousins in Fulda; volunteering for an adoption program through UNRRA; living in Aglasterhausen with other adoptees; emigration to Canada; assistance from the Canadian Jewish Congress; living with foster parents, then another family; surgery for injuries sustained in the camps; marriage in 1950; and her children's births (one son died at age two). Ms. F. discusses visiting Russia to meet her husband's family and returning to Be?dzin during one trip which finalized her parents' and brothers' deaths for her. She shows photographs and documents.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- F., Regina, -- 1931-
Corporate Bodies
- Canadian Jewish Congress.
- United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
- Feldafing (Displaced persons camp)
- Ludwigsdorf (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Postwar experiences.
- Hiding.
- Foster parents.
- Postwar effects.
- Concentration camps -- Psychological aspects.
- Forced labor.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Poland -- Będzin.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Child survivors.
Places
- Aglasterhausen (Germany : Refugee camp)
- Klettendorf (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Będzin ghetto.
- Fulda (Germany)
- Będzin (Poland)
- Poland.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat