Sprinta T. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Sprinta T., who was born in Rona de Sus, Romania in 1920. She recalls her large, Hasidic family; a happy childhood; attending school until age twelve; the family farm; her older brothers attending school elsewhere; Hungarian occupation in 1944; transfer with her family to a ghetto, then to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her parents (she never saw them again); slave labor building roads; transfer to Bergen-Belsen by train, then a death march; her cousin sharing food that she had found near the road; liberation by British troops; recuperating in MalmoĚ, Sweden; assistance from the Red Cross; eighteen months later joining her brothers in Belgium; marriage; and the births of her children. Ms. T. discusses her overwhelming fear in the camps; nightmares resulting from her experiences; and not sharing her experiences with her siblings or her children.
Extent and Medium
4 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
- T., Sprinta, -- 1920-
Corporate Bodies
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
Subjects
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Death marches.
- Concentration camps -- Psychological aspects.
- Postwar experiences.
- Hungarian occupation.
- Postwar effects.
- Mutual aid.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
Places
- Rona de Sus (Romania)
- Romania.
- MalmoĚ (Sweden)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat