Bela E. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Bela E., one of three children. She recalls attending schools in Vilnius; her father's and brother's prewar deaths; German invasion; ghettoization; her sister's deportation; her deportation to Kaiserwald; slave labor digging trenches, then in a factory; escaping with a fellow prisoner; a Pole hiding, then denouncing, them; escaping and hiding with another man; liberation by Soviet troops; traveling to Austria in 1946; marriage; and emigration to the United States in 1949. Ms. E. discusses learning her sister was killed in Auschwitz; nightmares; and her husband's murder in 1980.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- E., Bela.
Corporate Bodies
- Kaiserwald (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Forced labor.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Mutual aid.
- Postwar experiences.
- Hiding.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Escapes.
- Nightmares.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Lithuania -- Vilnius.
- Postwar effects.
Places
- Austria.
- Vilnius (Lithuania)
- Vilna ghetto.
- Poland.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat