Matilda B. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Matilda B., who was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1921. She describes her family's poverty; working in a factory starting at age fourteen; cordial relations with non-Jews; caring for her mother who was paralyzed; placing her in a hospital during German bombing in April 1941; she, her younger brother, and a friend moving her mother to an apartment; registering as a Jew; her brother deciding not to register himself and their mother; her brother obtaining false papers for all of them, including her friend; her mother's death in 1942; burying her as a Christian Serb with help from a non-Jewish friend; her brother bringing a starving Jewish child to the partisans; a priest giving him false papers; the partisan keeping the child until the war ended; receiving assistance from her aunt and partisans; liberation of Belgrade; moving to an apartment provided by the partisans; working in a textile factory; many awards as an outstanding worker, her way of repaying those who had helped save her; and meeting Tito in 1947 when she received one award. She notes her father and older brother were killed as Jews. She shows photographs and documents.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette
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
- Tito, Josip Broz, -- 1892-1980.
- B., Matilda, -- 1921-
Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Postwar experiences.
- False papers.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Hiding.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Yugoslavia.
- Brothers and sisters.
Places
- Belgrade (Serbia)
- Yugoslavia.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat