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• Author/Creator:U., Aviva.
  
• Title:Aviva U. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1077) [videorecording] / interviewed by Nathan Beyrak and Raphael Rosner, August 31, 1984.
  
• Published/Created:Ramat Aviv, Israel : Beth Hatefutsoth, Nahum Goldman Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, 1984.
  
• Physical Description:1 videorecording (3 hr.) : 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.1077)
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• Notes:This testimony is in Hebrew.
  2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
  
• Summary:Videotape testimony of Aviva U., who was born in Warsaw, Poland after her father's death. She recalls attending a Polish school, the only Jew in a quota; staying with her grandparents in Otwock; German invasion; returning to Warsaw; ghettoization; attending school; escaping a mass killing when her mother's body knocked her down and she feigned death; obtaining false papers from her mother's friend; escaping from the ghetto; posing as a Russian refugee; exposure by a Jew; denying her Judaism under torture; a priest attesting she was Catholic; transport to Germany for forced labor; working for a village mayor from 1943 to 1945; arrival of Soviet troops; joining the Soviet army to take revenge; working as a translator in Berlin; identifying collaborators who were immediately hung; deserting; returning to Warsaw and Otwock; returning to Germany due to Polish antisemitism; suffering from mental illness; studying in Munich; marriage; her daughter's birth; and their emigration to Israel in 1948. Mrs. U. discusses difficulties having her experiences heard in Israel; problematic relations with her daughter; the meaning of revenge in her life; and contemporary Israeli politics. She notes only now in Israel is the individual Holocaust experience valued apart from the collective Jewish experience.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Aviva U. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1077). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  
• Subjects:U., Aviva.
  Holocaust survivors.
  Video tapes.
  Women.
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
  World War, 1939-1945--Children.
  Jews--Poland--Warsaw.
  Jewish ghettos.
  World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.
  Forced labor.
  Revenge.
  Escapes.
  World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Soviet.
  Germany.
  Poland.
  Warsaw (Poland)
  Otwock (Poland)
  Berlin (Germany)
  Munich (Germany)
  Israel.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Child survivors.
  Mass killings.
  Aid by non-Jews.
  Hiding.
  Antisemitism--Prewar.
  Postwar experiences.
  Survivor-child relations.
  Antisemitism--Postwar.
  False papers.
  Postwar effects.
  Warsaw ghetto.
  
• Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
  
• Also listed under:Beyrak, Nathan, interviewer.
  Rozner, Raphael, interviewer.