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• Author/Creator:K., Tamara, 1922-
  
• Title:Tamara K. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1665) [videorecording] / interviewed by Louis Rosenblum and Lya Rosenblum, November 18,1990.
  
• Published/Created:Wilmette, Ill. : Holocaust Education Foundation, 1990.
  
• Physical Description:1 videorecording (44 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.1665)
    For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
    

   
• Notes:Associated material: Kacel, Tamara. Interview 51412. Visual History Archive, USC Shoah Foundation. Access at https://vha.usc.edu.
  2 copies: 3/4 in. master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
  
• Summary:Videotape testimony of Tamara K., who was born in Minsk, Belarus in 1922 and raised in Seirijai, Lithuania. She describes her family's strong Zionist commitment; school quotas due to antisemitism; being sent to Kaunas to attend school; German invasion in 1941; mass killings; ghettoization; losing contact with her family; living with her fiancé's parents; exemption from forced labor and receiving extra food because her fiancé was in the Jewish police; deportation to Stutthof in June 1944 (she never saw her fiancé or family again); starvation and cold leading to her wish to die; evacuation by boat to Kiel in spring 1945; liberation by British troops; transfer to a hospital in Itzehoe, then Sankt Ottilien; moving to Munich; working for a Zionist organization; hearing from her uncles in the United States; emigration to join them; and marriage to a man she had met in Munich. She discusses her depression and fear in the ghetto and camps, and learning how her family was killed.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Tamara K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1665). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  
• Subjects:K., Tamara, 1922-
  Stutthof (Concentration camp)
  Holocaust survivors.
  Video tapes.
  Women.
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  Jewish ghettos--Psychological aspects.
  World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
  Concentration camps--Psychological aspects.
  Jewish ghettos.
  Jews--Lithuania--Kaunas.
  Forced labor.
  World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.
  Belarus.
  Minsk (Belarus)
  Kaunas (Lithuania)
  Seirijai (Lithuania)
  Kiel (Germany)
  Itzehoe (Germany)
  Sankt Ottilien (Germany)
  Munich (Germany)
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Postwar experiences.
  Mass killings.
  Antisemitism--Prewar.
  Zionist organizations.
  Kovno ghetto.
  
• Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
  
• Also listed under:Rosenblum, Louis, interviewer.
  Rosenblum, Lya, interviewer.