Regina P. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Regina P., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1925. She recalls her comfortable childhood; German invasion; anti-Jewish regulations; ghettoization; working in a brush shop; one sister's deportation to Treblinka; a Passover seder; hiding in bunkers during the uprising; deportation with her family to Majdanek; separation from her father; transfer ten weeks later with her sister to Auschwitz (her mother remained in Majdanek); digging ditches; separation from her pregnant sister (she never saw her again); her emotional state during selections; working in potato fields and sorting clothing; public hanging of a barrack mate who tried to escape; being interrogated after the Sonderkommando uprising; the death march to Gleiwitz in January 1945; transfer to Ravensbru?ck, then Malchow; a German guard assisting her to escape from the death march from Malchow; and liberation by United States troops on April 16, 1945. Mrs. P. describes traveling with her girlfriend to Frankfurt; marriage in the Landsberg displaced persons camp; and emigrating to the United States in 1949. She reflects on claustrophobia resulting from her war experiences; the importance of friendship and mutual aid to her survival; dreams of her grandfather and sisters; and sharing her experience with her children.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- P., Regina, -- 1925-
Corporate Bodies
- Landsberg am Lech (Displaced persons camp)
- Majdanek (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- RavensbruĚck (Germany : Concentration camp)
- Malchow (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Hiding.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Concentration camps -- Revolts.
- Bunkers.
- Postwar effects.
- Child survivors.
- Postwar experiences.
- Mutual aid.
- Jewish ghettos -- Religious life and customs.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Sisters.
- Dreams.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Refugee camps.
- Escapes.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Death marches.
- Friendship.
- Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw.
- Concentration camps -- Psychological aspects.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
Places
- Gleiwitz (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
- Warsaw ghetto.
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Poland.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat