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• Author/Creator:B., Helena, 1920-
  
• Title:Helena B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3164) [videorecording] / interviewed by Michel Sobelman, July 10, 1994.
  
• Published/Created:Warsaw, Poland : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1994.
  
• Physical Description:1 videorecording (1 hr., 30 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.3164)
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• Notes:Related publication: Mur miał dwie strony / Helena Balicka-Kozłowska. -- Warszawa : Wydawn. Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej, c1958.
  Related publication: Memoirs of a Warsaw Ghetto fighter : the past within me / Simha Rotem (Kazik); translated from the Hebrew by Barbara Harshav. -- New Haven : Yale University Press, c1994.
  This testimony is in Polish.
  2 copies: 3/4 in. master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
  
• Summary:Videotape testimony of Helena B., a non-Jew, who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1920. She recalls her family's history of socialist activism; cordial relations with assimilated Jews; friendship with a girl from a Hasidic family; her father's open opposition to antisemitism resulting in his job termination; German invasion; humiliating treatment of Jews by German soldiers; visiting friends in the ghetto; observing starving children, corpses on the street, and lack of sanitation; providing shelter for Jews, some of whom were later arrested and killed; her parents, fearing informants, sending her to Dęblin; membership in Związek Walki Młodych (a leftist organization); assisting the ZOB (Jewish Fighting Organization) during the ghetto uprising; providing shelter, false papers, and medical care to her Jewish friend when she was wounded; her father's arrest; connecting her Jewish friends with Armia Ludowa; losing an arm during the Warsaw Uprising of 1944; liberation; and hospitalization in Kraków. Mrs. B. discusses differences between assimilated and observant Jews; maintaining contacts with her friends in Israel; harassment by Communist security police due to her Israeli contacts; and receiving the "Righteous Among Nations" medal in Israel in 1985. Mrs. B. discusses her book and many leaders of the ZOB.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Helena B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3164). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  
• Subjects:Rotem, Śimḥah.
  Edelman, Marek, 1919-2009.
  Zuckerman, Yitzhak, 1915-1981.
  Lubetkin, Zivia.
  B., Helena, 1920-
  Związek Walki Młodych.
  Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa (Poland)
  Poland. Armia Ludowa.
  Video tapes.
  Women.
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Polish.
  World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Poland.
  World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance.
  Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust.
  World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue.
  Jewish ghettos.
  Jews--Poland--Warsaw.
  Poland.
  Warsaw (Poland)
  Dęblin (Warsaw, Poland)
  Warsaw (Poland)--History--Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943.
  Warsaw (Poland)--History--Uprising, 1944.
  Kraków (Poland)
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Aid by non-Jews.
  False papers.
  Antisemitism--Postwar.
  Antisemitism--Prewar.
  Hiding.
  Partisans.
  Postwar experiences.
  Warsaw ghetto.
  ZOB.
  
• Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
  
• Also listed under:Sobelman, Michel, interviewer.