Rella C. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Rella C., who was born in Cluj, Romania in 1927. She recalls antisemitic harassment at school; her religious, close family; Hungarian occupation; a brother's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; ghettoization with her uncle's family, her sister, and sister's fianceĚ; deportation to Auschwitz; staying with her sister and aunt's niece; slave labor; living in complete fear; cursing God; separation from her sister; having blood drawn; transfer with her aunt's niece to Bergen-Belsen; finding her sister; hospitalization; visits from her aunt's niece; her disappearance; observing cannibalism; liberation; a long hospitalization; her sister leaving for Sweden, then the United States; living in Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp; assistance from UNRRA; marriage in 1947; emigration to Belgium; her son's birth; and emigration with her son to join her sister in the United States in 1961 (her husband did not come). Ms. C. discusses fears and nightmares resulting from her experiences.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette
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
- C., Rella, -- 1927-
Corporate Bodies
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
- DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen.
- United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Concentration camps -- Psychological aspects.
- Forced labor.
- Sisters.
- Jews -- Romania -- Cluj-Napoca.
- Nightmares.
- Refugee camps.
- Cannibalism.
- Concentration camp inmates -- Family relationships.
- Hospitals in concentration camps.
- Mutual aid.
- Hungarian occupation.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Postwar experiences.
- Postwar effects.
Places
- Romania.
- Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
- Belgium.
- Cluj ghetto.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat