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• Author/Creator:K., Clara, 1927-
  
• Title:Clara K. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1922) [videorecording] / interviewed by Jaschael Pery, December 24, 1991.
  
• Published/Created:New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1991.
  
• Physical Description:1 videorecording (1 hr., 40 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.1922)
    For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
    

   
• Notes:Associated material: Knopfler, Clara. Interview 764. Visual History Archive, USC Shoah Foundation. Access at https://vha.usc.edu.
  2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
  
• Summary:Videotape testimony of Clara K., who was born in Cehu Silvaniei, Romania in 1927. She describes cordial relations with non-Jews; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish laws; confiscation of her father's business; attending a Jewish school in Cluj-Napoca; ghettoization in Szilágysomlyó (Simleul-Silvaniei) in May 1944; public hanging of her boyfriend; transport to Auschwitz in June; separation from her father and brother (she never saw them again); transfer with her mother five days later to Kaiserwald; slave labor in a munitions factory; transfer by ship to Stutthof; transfer three days later to Dorbeck, Germany (Próchnik, Poland); slave labor digging antitank ditches; transfer to Guttau; a fellow prisoner giving birth; a German hiding the birth and the baby (it died); a death march in January 1945; abandonment by the guards; liberation; her mother protecting her from rape by a Soviet soldier; returning home; learning they were the only family survivors (thirty-six relatives were killed); marriage; and emigration to France in 1958, then the United States in 1962. Ms. K. discusses the importance to her survival of being with her mother and of luck; her mother's faith in God throughout; and sharing her experiences with her children and students (she is a retired teacher). She shows photographs.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Clara K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1922). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  
• Subjects:K., Clara, 1927-
  Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
  Kaiserwald (Concentration camp)
  Stutthof (Concentration camp)
  Holocaust survivors.
  Video tapes.
  Women.
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
  Jewish ghettos.
  Jews--Romania--Simleul Silvaniei.
  World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.
  Mothers and daughters.
  Forced labor.
  Death marches.
  Faith.
  Romania.
  Cehu Silvaniei (Romania)
  Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
  Șimleu Silvaniei (Romania)
  Próchnik (Poland)
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Hungarian occupation.
  Aid by non-Jews.
  Childbirth in concentration camps.
  Mutual aid.
  Postwar effects.
  Postwar experiences.
  Survivor-child relations.
  Szilágysomlyó ghetto.
  Guttau (Poland : Concentration camp)
  
• Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
  
• Also listed under:Pery, Jaschael, interviewer.