Ruth F. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 0408
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Ruth F., who was born in Brzeziny, Poland. She recalls her affluent family; German invasion and bombardment; her older brother's draft into the Polish army; anti-Jewish measures; public hanging of Jewish men at the end of 1939; ghettoization; forced labor at a munitions factory; the ghetto's liquidation; transfer with her family to ?o?dz?; her father's deportation (she never saw him again); separation from her mother upon arrival at Auschwitz/Birkenau in August 1944 (she never saw her again); prisoner observance of Rosh ha-Shanah; becoming ill; transfer to the hospital, then the Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Lager); transfer to Lenzing; slave labor digging ditches; and liberation by United States troops. Mrs. F. describes the assistance and kindness of Red Cross personnel; recuperating in a resort; seeking her brothers in Ebensee refugee camp; marriage; their joining the Haganah and moving to Italy; returning to Germany due to their discomfort with communal living; reunion with her brother in Alto?tting; and their emigration to the United States.

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

  • F., Ruth.

Corporate Bodies

  • Haganah (Organization)
  • Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
  • Birkenau (Concentration camp)
  • International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.

Subjects

  • Forced labor.
  • Concentration camp inmates -- Religious life.
  • Jews -- Poland -- Łódź.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Hospitals in concentration camps.
  • Video tapes.
  • Women.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • Jews -- Poland -- Brzeziny.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.

Places

  • Brzeziny ghetto.
  • Altötting (Germany)
  • Italy.
  • Brzeziny (Łódź, Poland)
  • Ebensee (Austria : Refugee camp)
  • Lenzing (Austria : Concentration camp)
  • Łódź ghetto.
  • Poland.

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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