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Author/Creator:B., Halina, 1930-
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Title:Halina B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3941) [videorecording] / interviewed by Dana L. Kline and Helen Katz, October 5, 1999.
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Published/Created:New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1999.
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Physical Description:1 videorecording (1 hr., 55 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.3941)
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:3 copies: Betacam SP master; 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
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Summary:Videotape testimony of Halina B., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1930. She recalls her father's Swiss watch import business; German invasion in 1939; ghettoization; escaping to Kielce with assistance from a former housekeeper; returning to the "Aryan" side of Warsaw, posing as non-Jews using false papers; assistance from two Polish women, the Swiss counsel, and his secretary; her father helping relatives escape; moving to Podkowa Leśna, then the woods near Pruszków; hiding in a bunker; their rescuers bringing food and books; threats of exposure from the Polish underground; returning to Warsaw during the 1944 uprising; being taken to Pruszków by the Wehrmacht; separation from her father; deportation with her mother and sister to Frankfurt for forced labor; agricultural work; correspondence from her father (he was in hiding); assistance from Soviet POWs; liberation by Soviet troops; returning to Pruszków; reunion with her father; moving to Łódź, then Geneva; studying in Paris; emigrating with her parents to Israel; her sister's emigration to the United States; marriage; and emigration to the United States in 1956. Ms. B. discusses gratitude to their rescuers; wanting to forget her previous life; and her granddaughter's interest in her experiences. She shows documents.
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Cite as:Halina B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3941). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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Subjects:B., Halina, 1930-
Holocaust survivors.
Video tapes.
Women.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
World War, 1939-1945--Children.
Jewish ghettos.
Jews--Poland--Warsaw.
Families.
Mothers and daughters.
Sisters.
Forced labor.
Escapes.
World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Poland.
Prisoners of war--Germany.
Poland.
Kielce (Poland)
Warsaw (Poland)
Pruszków (Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland)
Podkowa Leśna (Poland)
Warsaw (Poland)--History--Uprising, 1944.
Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
Łódź (Poland)
Geneva (Switzerland)
Paris (France)
Israel.
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Subjects (Local Yale):Child survivors.
Aid by non-Jews.
Hiding.
False papers.
Mutual aid.
Bunkers.
Postwar experiences.
Warsaw ghetto.
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Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
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Also listed under:Kline, Dana L., interviewer.
Katz, Helen, 1936- interviewer.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4528162