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• Author/Creator:B., Pearl, 1921-
  
• Title:Pearl B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2876) [videorecording] / interviewed by Joni-Sue Blinderman, March 16, 1994.
  
• Published/Created:New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1994.
  
• Physical Description:1 videorecording (1 hr., 56 min.) : col.
  

• Yale Holdings

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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.2876)
    For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
    

   
• Notes:2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
  
• Summary:Videotape testimony of Pearl B., who was born in Rozwadów, Poland in 1921. She recalls attending school in Jastkowice; her mother's death when she was five; her father's remarriage; cordial relations with non-Jews; her oldest brother's emigration to the United States in 1939; German invasion; many fleeing to the Soviet zone; obtaining food illegally from local Poles; hiding family valuables with Polish neighbors; her father's and brother's deportation to a labor camp; their release after six months; being beaten by two Ukrainians; receiving help from a former teacher; a round-up of Jews in July 1942; being hidden by a Pole; obtaining false papers from a priest; volunteering for forced labor in Germany using the false papers; being taken to Sandomierz, then Częstochowa; transport to Grevenbroich; factory work; obtaining extra food working as a housekeeper; a severe illness which left her partially blind; working in Düsseldorf; regaining vision after a fall; being condemned to death for defying an SS order; bribing guards to release her; moving to Jülich; joining a labor brigade; being identified as an escapee; being saved when the executioner was killed in an Allied bombing; and liberation by United States troops.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Pearl B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2876). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  
• Subjects:B., Pearl, 1921-
  Holocaust survivors.
  Video tapes.
  Women.
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
  Forced labor.
  Poland.
  Rozwadów (Stalowa Wola, Poland)
  Jastkowice (Poland)
  Sandomierz (Poland)
  Częstochowa (Poland)
  Grevenbroich (Germany)
  Düsseldorf (Germany)
  Jülich (Germany)
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Aid by non-Jews.
  False papers.
  Hiding.
  
• Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
  
• Also listed under:Blinderman, Joni-Sue, interviewer.