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Author/Creator:W., Clara, 1924-
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Title:Clara W. Holocaust testimony (HVT-277) [videorecording] / interviewed by Frances Ganz, November 30, 1982.
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Published/Created:Lawrence, N. Y. : Second Generation of Long Island, 1982.
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Physical Description:1 videorecording (1 hr., 3 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.0277)
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:This testimony has sections of defective video.
Associated material: Winston, Clara. Interview 30729. Visual History Archive, USC Shoah Foundation. Access at https://vha.usc.edu.
4 copies: 1/2 in. VHS master; Betacam SP restoration master; Betacam SP restoration submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
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Access and use:This testimony can only be used for scholarly and educational purposes.
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Summary:Videotape testimony of Clara W., who was born in Csenger, Hungary in 1924, one of four children. She recalls a large, extended family and their orthodoxy; one aunt's emigration to the United States in 1938; deteriorating conditions for Jews after Kristallnacht; her brother's and brother-in-law's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; moving in with her married sister in another town; her brother's death notice in 1940; forced relocation in Mezőcsát; transfer to the Miskolc ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her sister and baby (they did not survive); transfer ten days later to Płaszów; slave labor; a severe beating; friends giving her extra food; transfer back to Auschwitz, then Augsburg; factory labor for seven months; French Christian prisoners providing war news which gave her hope; transfer to Mühldorf; train deportation six days later; a mass shooting of more than half the prisoners; an Allied bombing (she hid under the train); liberation from the train by United States troops in Feldafing; living in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp; learning her immediate family had all perished; marriage; moving to Hamburg; and emigration to join her aunt in the United States. Ms. W. tells of illness after the war; her continuing belief in God; and frequently discussing her experiences with others, including her children.
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Cite as:Clara W. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-277). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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Subjects:W., Clara, 1924-
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Birkenau (Concentration camp)
Płaszów (Concentration camp)
Mühldorf (Concentration camp)
DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen.
Holocaust survivors.
Video tapes.
Women.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
Concentration camps--Psychological aspects.
Forced labor.
World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.
Faith.
Jewish ghettos.
Jews--Hungary--Miskolc.
Refugee camps.
Hungary.
Csenger (Hungary)
Mezőcsát (Hungary)
Miskolc (Hungary)
Feldafing (Germany)
Hamburg (Germany)
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Subjects (Local Yale):Postwar experiences.
Postwar effects.
Mass killings.
Mutual aid.
Survivor-child relations.
Miskolc ghetto.
Augsburg (Germany : Concentration camp)
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Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
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Also listed under:Ganz, Frances, interviewer.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4293382