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Author/Creator:W., Adele, 1922-
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Title:Adele W. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2558) [videorecording] / interviewed by Joni-Sue Blinderman and Constantine Limperis, June 16, 1993.
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Published/Created:New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1993.
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Physical Description:1 videorecording (1 hr., 36 min.) : col.
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Yale Holdings
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Location:LSF-Physical copy for request by library staff only
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Call Number: MS 1322
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Status:Not Checked Out
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Digital testimony (mssa.hvt.2558)
For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
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Location:LSF-Physical copy for request by library staff only
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Notes:Related material: Adele W. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1193), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
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Summary:Videotape testimony of Adele W., who was born in Będzin, Poland in 1922, the oldest of eight children. She recalls German invasion in 1939; round-ups of Jews; forced relocation to another home; hiding in a storage room with her family during round-ups; ghettoization; hiding in a bunker during a major round-up; hearing shooting in the streets; leaving the bunker to join her father when he was caught; detention in the ghetto; separation from her father; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; meeting two aunts and a cousin; forced labor in a munitions factory; giving extra food from her aunt to a friend; the death march to Ravensbrück, then Malchow, beginning in January 1945; continuing death marches; being beaten for trying to find food; escaping with her friends; liberation by Soviet troops; traveling to Katowice with Soviet soldiers, then to Austria with help from Haganah; meeting her future husband; moving to Naples, then Bacoli; joining a Mizrachi group; emigrating to Palestine in 1946; marriage in 1947; and emigrating to the United State twelve years later. Mrs. W. emphasizes her important friendships in the camps.
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Cite as:Adele W. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2558). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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Subjects:W., Adele, 1922-
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Birkenau (Concentration camp)
Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
Hapoel Hamizrachi.
Haganah (Organization)
Malchow (Concentration camp)
Holocaust survivors.
Video tapes.
Women.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
Jewish ghettos.
Jews--Poland--Będzin.
Forced labor.
Death marches.
Friendship.
Escapes.
Poland.
Będzin (Poland)
Katowice (Poland)
Bacoli (Italy)
Naples (Italy)
Palestine.
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Subjects (Local Yale):Hiding.
Bunkers.
Mutual aid.
Postwar experiences.
Będzin ghetto.
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Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
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Also listed under:Blinderman, Joni-Sue, interviewer.
Limperis, Constantine, interviewer.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4288053