Hila B. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Hila B., who was born in Jędrzejów, Poland in 1919, the seventh of eight children. She recounts her family's move to Łódź when she was six months old; their orthodoxy and relative affluence; participating in Gordonyah and Maccabi; her father's death in 1936; working to help support the family; marriage in March 1939; her brothers' and husband's military draft; German invasion; return of three brothers and her husband; visiting her injured brother in Skierniewice; his return; several of her siblings moving to Warsaw and her mother to Piotrków Trybunalski; joining her; a sister and niece arriving; round-up of her husband in 1942; working in a factory; hiding in a bunker during round-ups; being assigned to gather belongings from homes of deported Jews; her mother's deportation; forced labor in a textile factory; transfer to a work camp with her sister, her sister's husband, and their child; and one brother's death.
Extent and Medium
20 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
- Eichmann, Adolf, -- 1906-1962 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
- B., Hila, -- 1919-
Corporate Bodies
- Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
- DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen.
- Maccabi World Union.
- Gordonyah--Makabi ha-tsaʻir (Association)
Subjects
- War crime trials -- Germany.
- Refugee camps
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Concentration camps -- Songs and music.
- Concentration camp inmates -- Family relationships.
- Brothers.
- Sisters.
- Forced labor.
- Childbirth in concentration camps.
- Mutual aid.
- Hospitals in concentration camps.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Hiding.
- Bunkers.
- Public opinion -- Israel.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Public opinion.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Poland -- Piotrków Trybunalski.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Postwar effects.
- Postwar experiences.
Places
- Davos (Switzerland)
- Piotrków Trybunalski (Poland)
- Hamburg (Germany)
- Jever (Germany)
- Piotrków (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Piotrków ghetto.
- Jędrzejów (Województwo Świętokrzyskie, Poland)
- Poland.
- Skierniewice (Poland)
- Łódź (Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat