Bronia R. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Bronia R., who was born in Turek, Poland in 1926. She recounts German invasion; remaining home with her mother when her family unsuccessfully tried to escape to Russia; being forced to watch a public hanging; ghettoization; transfer to Inowrac?aw in 1940 in her sister's place; slave labor digging canals; deportation to Auschwitz in 1943; jumping off a truck on the way to the gas chambers and returning to a barrack; working for Telefunken in Langenbielau; transfer on open train cars via Bergen-Belsen and Mauthausen to Salzwedel; and liberation by United States troops in April 1945. Mrs. R. describes traveling with the United States Army to Braunschweig; studying nursing and English in Heidelberg; working as a nurse in the Lampertheim displaced persons camp; marriage in 1947; and emigration to the United States. She notes that she believed throughout her experience that God would save her.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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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.
Rules and Conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- R., Bronia, -- 1926-
Corporate Bodies
- Lampertheim (Displaced persons camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Langenbielau (Concentration camp)
- Salzwedel (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Forced labor.
- Jewish ghettos.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Child survivors.
- Refugee camps.
- Death marches.
- Jews -- Poland -- Turek.
- Faith.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
Places
- InowracĹaw (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Heidelberg (Germany)
- Turek ghetto.
- Turek (Poland)
- Braunschweig (Germany)
- Poland.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat