Fran L. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 4395
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Fran L., who was born in Chrzanów, Poland in 1924. In addition to information in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-675), Ms. L. recalls receiving food from her family's former maid who was a Polish civilian worker at Neusalz; transfer from Gross-Rosen to Flossenbürg, then Bergen-Belsen; meeting her husband through his uncle, an official at the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp; friendship with Hadassah and Joseph Rosensaft; and living in Celle after she was married. She discusses her continuing belief in God and commitment to orthodoxy; traveling to Poland with her children fifteen years ago; and plans for a similar trip with her grandchildren soon. She shows photographs and documents.

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.

Related Units of Description

  • Related material: Fran L. Holocaust testimony (HVT-675), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Rules and Conventions

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Process Info

  • compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

People

  • L., Fran, -- 1924-
  • Rosensaft, Hadassah, -- 1912-1997.
  • Rosensaft, Josef, -- 1911-1975.

Corporate Bodies

  • Neusalz (Concentration camp)
  • Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp)
  • Flossenbürg (Concentration camp)
  • Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
  • DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen.
  • Sosnowiec (Concentration camp)

Subjects

  • Aid by non-Jews.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Survivor-child relations.
  • Video tapes.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • Women.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • Jewish children in the Holocaust.
  • Forced labor.
  • Jews -- Poland -- Chrzanów.
  • Refugee camps.
  • Death marches.
  • Child survivors.
  • Faith.
  • Mutual aid.
  • Hiding.

Places

  • Poland.
  • Chrzanów (Poland)
  • Kraków (Poland)
  • Celle (Germany)
  • Chrzanów ghetto.

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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