Remembering Częstochowa, Poland

Identifier
HVT 8080
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Seven survivors from Częstochowa, Poland describe their lives before the war; German invasion; ghettoization; mass killings; deportations; slave labor in German factories established in Częstochowa; liberation by Soviet troops, and their losses. This edited program was prepared for an exhibit in Częstochowa that was also shown in Kraków, Warsaw, and the United States. There is a version with Polish subtitles.

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.

Related Units of Description

  • Related material: Malka B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1576). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Rules and Conventions

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Process Info

  • compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

Corporate Bodies

  • Częstochowa (Concentration camp)

Subjects

  • Men.
  • Women.
  • Video tapes.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.

Places

  • Częstochowa (Poland)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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