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• Author/Creator:S., Rena, 1929-
  
• Title:Rena S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2126) [videorecording] / interviewed by David Herman, February 24, 1993.
  
• Published/Created:London, England : British Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1993.
  
• Physical Description:1 videorecording (56 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.2126)
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• Notes:2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
  
• Access and use:This testimony cannot be used for commercial purposes, nor can it be edited.
  
• Summary:Videotape testimony of Rena S., who was born in Zduńska Wola, Poland in 1929. She recalls a comfortable life; visiting grandparents in Kalisz and Łódź; German invasion in September 1939; walking to Łódź; returning home shortly thereafter; confiscation of their home; living with grandparents in Kalisz; confiscation of their home; returning to her parents; ghettoization; her younger sister's selection in 1942 (she never saw her again); rail transport to the Łódź ghetto; living with relatives; forced factory labor; hospitalization for typhus; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in 1944; separation from her father (she never saw him again); transfer with her mother to Hamburg; slave labor demolishing buildings; transfer to Poppenbüttel; doing roadwork; separation from her mother; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; finding her mother; liberation by British troops; hospitalization; her mother's death; marking her grave; living in the displaced persons camp; returning to Łódź with an aunt, then back to Germany; living in Munich; assistance from the Joint; living in Berck-Plage, Paris, a children's home in Versailles, and with relatives in Paris; emigration to London in 1949; marriage; and raising two children. Ms. S. discusses numbness in the camps; losing her belief in God; slowly recovering her faith; and never sharing her story before.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Rena S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2126). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  
• Subjects:S., Rena, 1929-
  Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
  Birkenau (Concentration camp)
  Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
  American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
  DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen.
  Holocaust survivors.
  Video tapes.
  Women.
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
  World War, 1939-1945--Children.
  Jewish children in the Holocaust.
  Jewish ghettos.
  Jews--Poland--Łódź.
  Jews--Poland--Zduńska Wola.
  Forced labor.
  Concentration camps--Psychological aspects.
  Mothers and daughters.
  Refugee camps.
  Faith.
  Orphanages--France.
  Versailles (France)
  Paris (France)
  Berck-Plage (France)
  Munich (Germany)
  Kalisz (Poland)
  Łódź (Poland)
  Zduńska Wola (Poland)
  Poland.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Hospitals in Jewish ghettos.
  Child survivors.
  Postwar experiences.
  Postwar effects.
  Zduńska Wola ghetto.
  Łódź ghetto.
  Hamburg (Germany : Concentration camp)
  Poppenbüttel-Sasel (Germany : Concentration camp)
  
• Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)