Irene B. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 3949
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Irene B., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1922. She recalls Hitler's warm reception during the Anschluss; expulsion from school; her parents sending her younger sister to relatives in Czechoslovakia; Nazis vandalizing their apartment during Kristallnacht; her father's incarceration in Dachau; she and her mother moving in with relatives; emigration to Palestine with a Youth Aliyah group; a painful parting from her mother; living on a kibbutz; contacts with Henrietta Szold; visiting her parents and sister in the United States in 1947; serving in the Magen DavĚŁid adom during the 1948 War; studying music; emigration to the United States; two marriages; and the births of a daughter and son. Ms. B. notes the killing of most of her relatives; her good fortune; and doing volunteer work to "give back." Ms. B. shows documents and photographs.

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

  • Szold, Henrietta, -- 1860-1945.
  • B., Irene, -- 1922-

Corporate Bodies

  • Magen DavĚŁid adom.
  • Jewish Agency for Israel. -- Youth Aliyah Department. -- Mador le-hadrakhah.

Subjects

  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
  • Jewish children in the Holocaust.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Video tapes.
  • Women.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Crystal Night, 1938.
  • Child survivors.
  • Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue.
  • Jews -- Migrations.
  • Kristallnacht, 1938.

Places

  • Palestine.
  • Austria -- History -- Anschluss, 1938.
  • Vienna (Austria)
  • Austria.

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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