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• Author/Creator:S., Betsy, 1928-
  
• Title:Betsy S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2986) [videorecording] / interviewed by Claire Paulus and Rina Margos, 1992.
  
• Published/Created:Brussels, Belgium : Fondation Auschwitz, 1992.
  
• Physical Description:1 videorecording (1 hr., 37 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.2986)
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• Notes:This testimony is in French.
  2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
  
• Summary:Videotape testimony of Betsy S., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1928. She recounts that her parents were Polish immigrants; German invasion in May 1940; her father continuing his business until 1942; meeting her future husband who was involved in the Resistance; going into hiding with her family; their arrest in June 1944; incarceration in Malines; deportation to Birkenau; separation from her father and brother (they did not survive); the trauma of not recognizing her mother after they were shaved; singing French songs while marching to Auschwitz; separation from her mother (she did not survive) when she was transferred to Wilischtal; sabotaging her work in a munitions factory; receiving extra food from German civilian workers; being forced to watch a prisoner publicly beaten to death; evacuation to Theresienstadt in April 1945; receiving Red Cross packages; liberation; transfer to Prague by the Red Cross; and repatriation to Namur. Mrs. S. notes the importance to her survival of being with one friend; fears, loneliness, and continuing sadness resulting from her experiences; and reluctance to discuss these years with her husband and her children.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Betsy S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2986). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  
• Subjects:S., Betsy, 1928-
  International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
  Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
  Birkenau (Concentration camp)
  Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
  Malines (Concentration camp)
  Holocaust survivors.
  Video tapes.
  Women.
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  Friendship.
  World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
  World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.
  Sabotage.
  Forced labor.
  World War, 1939-1945--Children.
  Mothers and daughters.
  Concentration camps--Psychological aspects.
  Concentration camps--Sociological aspects.
  Brussels (Belgium)
  Belgium.
  Prague (Czech Republic)
  Namur (Belgium)
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Aid by non-Jews.
  Hiding.
  Child survivors.
  Postwar experiences.
  Postwar effects.
  Survivor-child relations.
  Wilischtal (Germany : Concentration camp)
  
• Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
  
• Also listed under:Paulus, Claire, interviewer.
  Margos, Rina, interviewer.