Raquel F. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Raquel F., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1928. She recalls attending a Jewish school; antisemitic harassment by Polish children; her father's emigration to Argentina in 1938; German invasion; ghettoization; forced factory labor with her mother; joining a Zionist youth group; sharing food and caring for each other; deportation to Auschwitz in August 1944; separation from her mother and brother; remaining with a friend; their transfer to another camp; slave labor manufacturing airplane radios; Allied bombings; walking to Bergen-Belsen; liberation by British troops; hospitalization in Belsen and Hamburg; reunion with her brother; communication from their father; joining him in Argentina via Uruguay in 1947; marriage; and her father's remarriage. Mrs. F. discusses relations between national groups in the camps; the importance to her survival of luck, youth, and a strong will; and sharing memories of the war years with her brother. She is briefly joined by her daughter.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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Process Info
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People
- F., Raquel, -- 1928-
Corporate Bodies
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Forced labor.
- Jews -- Poland -- Łódź.
- Jewish ghettos.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Zionist organizations.
- Child survivors.
- Concentration camps -- Sociological aspects.
- Postwar experiences.
- Mutual aid.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
Places
- Poland.
- Łódź ghetto.
- Hamburg (Germany)
- Uruguay.
- Łódź (Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat