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• Author/Creator:K., Rose, 1921-
  
• Title:Rose K. Holocaust testimony (HVT-841) [videorecording] / interviewed by Bernard Weinstein and Phyllis O. Ziman Tobin, February 12, 1987.
  
• Published/Created:Union, N.J. : Kean College Oral Testimonies Project, 1987.
  
• Physical Description:1 videorecording (1 hr., 23 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.0841)
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• Notes:2 copies: 3/4 in. master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
  
• Summary:Videotape testimony of Rose K., who was born in Beuthen, Germany (Bytom, Poland) in 1921, the youngest of eight children. She recalls living in Będzin; her father's death; her mother's death six years later; placement in an orphanage; living with her sister; German invasion; anti-Jewish regulations; pretending to be a non-Jew to buy food; ghettoization; hiding with her sister, sister-in-law, and niece during a round-up; betrayal by their Polish landlord; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her family (she relives her sister's death to this day); slave labor digging trenches; a friend obtaining a privileged position for them in the shoe repair shop; Mala Zimetbaum's escape and capture; a death march and train transport to Ravensbrück, then Neustadt; smuggling food from her kitchen job to her friends; liberation by Soviet troops; learning a brother had survived; reunion with him in Feldafing displaced persons camp; marriage to her brother's friend; their emigration to the United States in 1949; assistance from HIAS; divorcing her husband because he could not have children; her second marriage; and the birth of her children.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Rose K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-841). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  
• Subjects:K., Rose, 1921-
  Zimetbaum, Mala, 1918-1944.
  HIAS (Agency)
  Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
  Birkenau (Concentration camp)
  Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
  Neustadt-Glewe (Concentration camp)
  Feldafing (Displaced persons camp)
  Holocaust survivors.
  Video tapes.
  Women.
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
  Orphanages--Poland.
  Jewish ghettos.
  Jews--Poland--Będzin.
  Forced labor.
  Death marches.
  Refugee camps.
  Germany.
  Bytom (Poland)
  Będzin (Poland)
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Postwar experiences.
  Postwar effects.
  Będzin ghetto.
  Beuthen (Germany)
  
• Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
  
• Also listed under:Weinstein, Bernard, 1937- interviewer.
  Tobin, Phyllis O. Ziman, interviewer.