Oral history interview with Bella Tovey
Extent and Medium
4 film reels, color ; 16 mm
3 sound tape reels, analog, mono ; 7 in.
2 videocassette (D2), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
Creator(s)
- Sandra Bradley
Biographical History
Sandra Bradley, a film production consultant for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, conducted the interview with Bella Tovey on January 30, 1992, in preparation for the making of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum exhibition film, "Testimony." The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History branch received the films and tapes of the interview in August 1994. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the films and tapes of the interview via transfer from the Oral History branch in February 1995.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Funding Note: The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Tovey, Bella Jakubowicz, 1926-
- Sandra Bradley
- Bella J. Tovey
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Sosnowiec (Województwo Slaskie)
- Women--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Poland--Sosnowiec (Województwo Slaskie)
- Women concentration camp inmates.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany.
- Typhus fever--Germany.
- Typhoid fever--Germany.
- Kapos--Germany.
- Intellectuals--Poland--Sosnowiec (Województwo Slaskie)
- Jews--Persecutions--Poland--Sosnowiec (Województwo Slaskie)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.
- Flax industry--Germany.
- Forced labor--Poland.
- Faith (Judaism)
- Death marches.
- Concentration camp inmates--Religious life.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Poland.
- Srodula (Sosnowiec, Poland)
- Sosnowiec (Województwo Slaskie, Poland)
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Germany.
- Bedzin (Poland)
- Holocaust survivors--United States--Interviews.
Genre
- Oral History