Bluma B. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Bluma B., who was born in Warsaw (Praga), Poland in 1922. She recalls graduation from gymnasium in June 1939; German invasion; ghettoization; a Judenrat member helping her family locate living quarters; round-ups by Jewish police; streets strewn with corpses; her mother's and sister's deportation (she never saw them again); forced factory labor; living with her father at Mila 5; youth activities; surviving the big selection at the end of 1942; hiding with her father in a bunker during the winter; the Jewish uprising in 1943; being burned out; deportation to Majdanek; separation from her father upon arrival (she never saw him again); meaningless slave labor; public hangings; transfer to Skarz?ysko-Kamienna; assignment to Werke C; transfer to a HASAG factory at Leipzig; a death march in April 1945; and liberation by Soviet troops. Mrs. B. describes returning to Warsaw; traveling to P?ock with a friend; marriage to another survivor in ?o?dz?; traveling to Hamburg; her son's birth; and emigration to the United States. She discusses her unhappiness and indecision immediately after the war; being an overprotective parent as a result of her experiences; seeing the best and worst of people during the war; and ever-present memories of that time.
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
- B., Bluma, -- 1922-
Corporate Bodies
- Skarżysko-Kamienna (Concentration camp)
- Majdanek (Concentration camp)
- Hugo Schneider Aktiengesellschaft.
- Hasag-Leipzig (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Postwar effects.
- Postwar experiences.
- Mutual aid.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw.
- Jewish councils.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance.
- Forced labor.
- Concentration camps -- Sociological aspects.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Death marches.
- Hiding.
- Bunkers.
Places
- Warsaw (Poland) -- History -- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943.
- Praga (Warsaw, Poland)
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Poland.
- Leipzig (Germany)
- Hamburg (Germany)
- Łódź (Poland)
- Płock (Poland)
- Warsaw ghetto.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat