Regina F. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Regina F., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1926. She recalls the family move to Aleksandro?w Kujawski; the successful family business; their affluent and happy life; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; returning to Warsaw; ghettoization in 1940; her father's and sister's deportation; her mother's and brother's deportation; going to Mila 18 in 1942 and discovering her grandmother and siblings, who had been hiding; hiding in a bunker; discovery and deportation to Majdanek with her sister; their transfer to Auschwitz; a guard allowing her sister to remain with her; a privileged position in Canada Kommando; smuggling food to others; a baby's birth; disposing of the baby to save the mother; transfer to Ravensbru?ck in 1945; escape, with aid from a guard, during transfer elsewhere; liberation by Soviet troops; returning to Warsaw and ?o?dz? seeking relatives (she found none); living in displaced persons camps in Landsberg and Stuttgart; marriage; her son's birth; and emigration to the United States in 1950. She discusses her lack of desire to live after the war; her lost youth; a song about the Warsaw ghetto; and never discussing her experiences with her children and other survivors. She shows photographs.
Extent and Medium
3 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., Regina, -- 1926-
Corporate Bodies
- Landsberg am Lech (Displaced persons camp)
- Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Majdanek (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Songs and music.
- Escapes.
- Sisters.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Forced labor.
- Child survivors.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Survivor child relations.
- Postwar effects.
- Mutual aid.
- Refugee camps.
- Hiding.
- Postwar experiences.
- Childbirth in concentration camps.
- Canada Kommando.
- Bunkers.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
Places
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Poland.
- Aleksandrów Kujawski (Poland)
- Stuttgart (Germany : Refugee camp)
- Warsaw ghetto.
- Łódź (Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat