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• Author/Creator:H., Ann, 1925-
  
• Title:Ann H. Holocaust testimony (HVT-288) [videorecording] / interviewed by Gloria Demby and Norman Blumenthal, June 24, 1984.
  
• Published/Created:New York, N.Y. : Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale, 1984.
  
• Physical Description:1 videorecording (1 hr., 51 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.0288)
    For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
    

   
• Notes:Associated material: Hershkowitz, Ann. Interview 2278. Visual History Archive, USC Shoah Foundation. Access at https://vha.usc.edu.
  3 copies: 3/4 in. master; 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
  
• Summary:Videotape testimony of Ann H., who was born in Chrzanów, Poland in 1925. She describes her religious childhood; increased antisemitism from 1933 on; German bombing in 1939; her brothers' departure for the Russian zone and her sister's to a forced labor camp; selection in 1940 when she and her sister were separated from her parents, whom she never saw again; deportation with her sister to Sosnowiec, then to Germany; and work as slave laborers. She recalls that despite horrendous work and living conditions, they always thought they would survive. Mrs. S. tells of worsening conditions in several camps; evacuation by foot to what they thought was Auschwitz, but later learned was Bergen-Belsen; separation from her sister; conditions in block 216; cutting wood for pyres because there were too many bodies for the crematoria; becoming indifferent to the dead all around; trading a ring to be with her sister; contracting typhus; liberation by the British; the ensuing chaos and hearing about cannibalism; her sister's death six weeks later; meeting her husband; learning one sister and one brother had survived; and emigration to England, then to the United States. She discusses the difficulty of telling of her experience after the war; not telling her children when they were young, fearing it would affect them; her sense of obligation to do so now; and her continuing nightmares.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Ann H. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-288). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  
• Subjects:H., Ann, 1925-
  DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen.
  Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
  Holocaust survivors.
  Video tapes.
  Women.
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
  Forced labor.
  Cannibalism.
  Nightmares.
  Sisters.
  Death marches.
  Poland.
  Chrzanów (Poland)
  Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie, Poland)
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Graeben (Poland : Concentration camp)
  
• Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
  
• Also listed under:Demby, Gloria, interviewer.
  Blumenthal, Norman, interviewer.