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• Author/Creator:B., Sylvia, 1928-
  
• Title:Sylvia B. and Frances G. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4) [videorecording] / interviewed by Dori Laub and Laurel Vlock, March 6, 1980.
  
• Published/Created:New Haven, Conn. : Holocaust Survivors Film Project, 1980.
  
• Physical Description:1 videorecording (2 hrs., 8 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.0004)
    For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
    

   
• Notes:Associated material: Brodach, Sylvia. Interview 22393. Visual History Archive, USC Shoah Foundation. Access at https://vha.usc.edu.
  Associated material: Sylvia B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-223), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  3 copies: 3/4 in. master; 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
  
• Summary:Videotape testimony of Sylvia B., who was born in 1928, and her sister Frances G., who was born in 1924, in Velikiĭ Bereznyĭ in the Carpathian region of Czechoslovakia. They speak of their happy prewar life in a town with a large Jewish population; economic difficulties and anti-Jewish legislation under Hungarian occupation; the German occupation in 1944; and the round-up and deportation of Jews three weeks later. They describe conditions in the Ungvár (Uz︠h︡horod) ghetto, where they spent several weeks before being sent to Auschwitz. At Auschwitz they were separated from other family members and, after three days, sent to Riga/Kaiserwald. The sisters tell of their lives there and of their separation after Frances G. contracted typhus. Sylvia B. relates her transfer to Stutthof via Danzig and subsequent slave labor in a small town in Poland until her liberation by the Russians; her postwar search for family members; and her reunion with her sister. Mrs. G. describes her work as a slave laborer in Stutthof/Danzig; the death march from there; and her liberation by the Russians. She communicates the rage she experienced upon returning to her home town and recalls her reunion with her sister in Uzhgorod.
  Other postwar experiences recounted include the sisters' move to Prague, where Frances G. married; Mrs. B.'s emigration to the United States and Mrs. G.'s emigration, with her small daughter, to Israel. Mrs. G., clearly deeply affected by her wartime memories, also speaks of her relationship with her children and her joyful reunion with her sister in the United States, where she moved after spending eight years in Israel.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Indexes/Finding aids:Unpublished finding aid available in repository; 1/2 in. VHS is linked to finding aid by time coding.
  
• Cite as:Sylvia B. and Frances G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  
• Subjects:B., Sylvia, 1928-
  G., Frances, 1924-
  Kaiserwald (Concentration camp)
  Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
  Stutthof (Concentration camp)
  Video tapes.
  Women.
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Psychological aspects.
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
  Forced labor.
  Holocaust survivors.
  Jewish ghettos.
  Jews--Ukraine--Uz︠h︡horod.
  Death marches.
  Czechoslovakia.
  Velikiĭ Bereznyĭ (Ukraine)
  Uz︠h︡horod (Ukraine)
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Hungarian occupation.
  Postwar experiences.
  Aid by non-Jews.
  Ungvár ghetto.
  
• Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
  
• Also listed under:Laub, Dori, interviewer.
  Vlock, Laurel, interviewer.