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• Author/Creator:B., Hilda, 1926-
  
• Title:Hilda B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1461) [videorecording] / interviewed by Susan W. Needle and Jody Maier, January 31, 1990.
  
• Published/Created:Baltimore, Md. : Baltimore Jewish Council, 1990.
  
• Physical Description:1 videorecording (51 min.) : col.
  

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  • Location:LSF-Physical copy for request by library staff only
    Staff Request for Use in Manuscripts and Archives
    
    
  • Call Number: MS 1322
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  •   Digital testimony (mssa.hvt.1461)
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• Notes:2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
  
• Summary:Videotape testimony of Hilda B., who was born in Steinsfurt, Germany in 1926. She recalls her father's death in 1928 from World War I injuries; moving to a village; having their windows broken on Kristallnacht; expulsion from public school; attending a Jewish school in Heilbronn; her family's deportation while she was away from home in 1940; living with a teacher in Heilbronn; forced labor; briefly studying nursing in Hamburg; and deportation to Theresienstadt in August 1942. Mrs. B. describes the organization of life in Theresienstadt; deportation to Auschwitz in October 1944; transfer to Birkenau; efforts to stay with her friends; transport two weeks later to Kurzbach; digging graves; sending a note to friends in Theresienstadt through a guard; the death march to Gross Rosen; transfer to Mauthausen, then Bergen-Belsen; horrendous conditions for two months; liberation by British troops in April 1945; recuperating in Stockholm, Sweden; and emigration to the United States. She discusses her reunion with her sister after a twenty year separation and her continuing reluctance to speak of her experiences.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Hilda B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1461). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  
• Subjects:B., Hilda, 1926-
  Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
  Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
  Birkenau (Concentration camp)
  Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp)
  Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
  Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
  Holocaust survivors.
  Video tapes.
  Women.
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
  Forced labor.
  World War, 1939-1945--Children.
  Concentration camps--Sociological aspects.
  Kristallnacht, 1938.
  Death marches.
  Stockholm (Sweden)
  Germany.
  Steinsfurt (Germany)
  Heilbronn (Germany)
  Hamburg (Germany)
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Antisemitism--Prewar.
  Crystal Night, 1938.
  Aid by non-Jews.
  Child survivors.
  Mutual aid.
  Postwar experiences.
  Survivor-child relations.
  Kurzbach (Poland : Concentration camp)
  
• Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
  
• Also listed under:Needle, Susan W., interviewer.
  Maier, Jody, interviewer.